MDOsprey,
A 3-day paddling trip on Assateague Island Friday-Sunday didn't produce too
many passerines (mostly because we were avoiding mosquitoes when we were at
the campsite).
In random memory allocation order...
About a half-dozen RB Nuthatches
2 N. Flickers
1 eastern kingbird
Several catbirds
Carolina Wrens
Lots of Boat-tailed grackles
Dueling (audio, not physically dueling) pairs of Great Horns (surprised to
be in earshot of 2 pairs)
Least, Foresters, Common, Caspian, Royal terns (2 leasts circled our boats a
few times for amusement)
2 common loons in winter plumage
1 gannet offshore
Couple of dozen B pelicans
Hundreds of DC cormorants, most of them migrating once the winds changed in
their favor.
Possible skimmers (2 out of site before I could drop my paddle and grab my
bins)
Lots of snowy and great egrets
About 10 great blues
1 tri-colored
1 little blue
1 Bald eagle
4 Marsh hawks (all female)
~6,342 tree swallows (sometimes so thick over our kayaks that we thought the
sun had already set)
...with a few barn swallows in the mix
Many greater and lesser yellow legs ( as well as the greater lesser and the
least greater)
1 Snipe flyby
1 Black bellied Plover
2 Semipalm plovers
1 solitary sandpiper
A few sanderlings

Lots of toads around the dunes
About a dozen Green tree frogs around the camp (some roosting on our boats).
Many well fed spiders (mosquito-feed)

Jordan Wilkerson
Cloverly, MD
Montgomery County