[MDOsprey] Eastern Shore - Monday

Don Burggraf (dburggraf@hotmail.com)
Mon, 26 Jul 1999 19:23:32 PDT


Hi.

On Monday, I had a chance to chase the ruff at Easton.  The ruff proved 
quicker than me.  He was not
reported at Easton all day.  One observer there theorzed that the the change 
in the weather last night might
have sent it on its way elsewhere.  I went on to Hurlock WMA and Blackwater. 
  A modest list follows, with
a surprise or two.

Great Blue Heron
Great Egret
Snowy Egret
Little Blue Heron
Green Heron
Black Vulture
Turkey Vulture
SNOW GOOSE
TUNDRA SWAN
Mallard
Ruddy Duck
Osprey
NORTHERN HARRIER
Red-shouldered Hawk
Red-tailed Hawk
Killdeer
Greater Yellowlegs
Lesser Yellowlegs
Solitary Sandpiper
Spotted Sandpiper
Semipalmated Sandpiper
Least Sandpiper
Pectoral Sandpiper
Laughing Gull
Great Black-backed Gull
Caspian Tern
Common Tern
Forster's Tern
Least Tern
Mourning Dove
Downy Woodpecker
Pileated Woodpecker
Eastern Wood-pewee
Eastern Kingbird
Great Crested Flycatcher
Red-eyed Vireo
Blue Jay
crow (sp)
Horned Lark (mixed adults and juveniles)
Tree Swallow
Northern Rough-winged Swallow
Bank Swallow
Barn Swallow
Carolina Chickadee
Tufted Titmouse
Carolina Wren
Marsh Wren
Wood Thrush
Gray Catbird
Northern Mockingbird
European Starling
Common Yellowthroat
Chipping Sparrow
Field Sparrow
Grasshopper Sparrow
Song Sparrow
Northern Cardinal
Indigo Bunting
Bobolink (more than 100!)
Eastern Meadowlark
Common Grackle
Orchard Oriole
House Finch
American Goldfinch
House Sparrow

The snow goose and the tundra swan were both found at Hurlock WMA.  The snow 
goose flapped its wings
when it was on shore, and it was evident that it did not have all its flight 
feathers.  I observed the harrier as I
drove back to Baltimore.  (I was driving on I-97, just South of BWI.)  A bit 
early for harriers?  The
Bobolink flock observed today at Easton WMA was much larger than the 40 
previously reported there.  Too
bad about the absent ruff!  I have only seen a reeve.  This bird remains a 
sex-specific nemesis for me!

Don Burggraf
Baltimore


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