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Eastern Shore 4/8-4/9

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Zachary Baer

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Zachary Baer

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Sat, 9 Apr 2005 21:51:52 -0400

Me and Matt Hafner Birded up and down the eastern shore over the weekend.  
On Fri. we meet in QA county and worked our way down to Salisbury.  Then 
today we had the pleasure of taking the Centreville Middle School World 
Series of Birding Team around Wor, Wic, and Dor. county.  We had several 
highlights and I will try and do them by location.

Chesapeake Wetlands Institute (Horsehead)
2 Yellow-throated Warblers
2 Blue-winged teals

Pickering Creek Audubon Center:
Eurasian (Common) Green-winged teal
6 Blue-winged teals

On the Nanticoke:
Black and Surf Scoter
Royal Terns
Boneparte's Gulls

Sat.

10 species of Warbler!

15 Blk & White
10 Ovenbirds
2 Prairies
2 Prothonatorys
1 Northern Parula
3 Common Yellowthroats
15 Myrtle Warblers
2 Lousiania Waterthrushes
20 Yellow-throated Warblers
10-15 Pine Warblers

Other Highlights for the Wango:
1 Blue-headed Vireo
2 Turkeys
3 Red-shouldered hawks
1 Least sand.

Elliot Island:
2 Dowitcher sp.
4 Black-necked stilts
20 dunlins
10 lesser yellowlegs
10 greater yellowlegs

Rt. 404 between Denton and 480
43 Greater yellowlegs
5 lesser yellowlegs
2 Pectoral Sand.

Rt. 480
15 bonepartes gulls
100 laughing gulls
1 ad. LITTLE GULL with almost a complete hood, all of these birds we in a 
large puddle.

What a great 2 days of birding

Zach Baer
Centreville, MD


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