Hi all,
MOS/Anne Arundel Co Bird Club trip, 4/9/05
Leaders: 1st party - Bob Ringler/Kevin Graff
2nd party - Larry Zoller
Observers: 30
9am-1015am (boat left at 930am for Smith Is)
Point Lookout SP Boat Launch, the causeway & the
cruise (St. Mary's), Point Lookout Rd., Scotland, St.
Mary's Co., MD
1 Red-throated Loon - returned trip
2 Common Loon
1 Pied-billed Grebe
2 Horned Grebe
128 Northern Gannet - cruise
181 Double-crested Cormorant - fish pilings or pound
7 Great Blue Heron net, whatever it is
4 Turkey Vulture called
1 Canada Goose
4 Mute Swan
2 American Black Duck
1 Mallard
43 Surf Scoter
1 Black Scoter - cruise
2 Long-tailed Duck - cruise
12 Bufflehead - 2 cruise
3 Red-breasted Merganser
6 Osprey - 2 cruise
2 Bald Eagle - on nest
1 Greater Yellowlegs
1 Laughing Gull
8 Bonaparte's Gull
28 Herring Gull - 8 cruise
8 Great Black-backed Gull - 4 cruise
4 Barn Swallow
1 American Crow
5 Fish Crow
2 Northern Mockingbird
2 European Starling
5 Pine Warbler
1 Song Sparrow
1 Common Grackle
470 32 species
Butterflies
2 Cabbage White
1015am-2pm (arrive at Smith Is. 11am)
Smith Is, Martin NWR and the cruise (Somerset Co.),
Smith Is Rd., Ewell, Somerset Co., MD
4 Common Loon - 1 cruise
67 Northern Gannet - cruise
3 Brown Pelican
8 Double-crested Cormorant
48 Great Blue Heron
20 Great Egret
2 Snowy Egret
19 Little Blue Heron
9 Tricolored Heron
9 Green Heron
12 Yellow-crowned Night Heron
51 Glossy Ibis
2 Turkey Vulture
1 Canada Goose
2 Mute Swan
1 Gadwall
14 American Black Duck
4 Mallard
1 Blue-winged Teal
2 Green-winged Teal
8 Surf Scoter - cruise
1 Long-tailed Duck - cruise
26 Bufflehead
7 Red-breasted Merganser - pond at Smith is
8 Osprey
1 Bald Eagle
3 Northern Harrier
1 Red-tailed Hawk
1 American Oystercatcher
1 Willet
1 Ruddy Turnstone
30 Sanderling
3 Wilson's Snipe
1 Ring-billed Gull
134 Herring Gull - 7 cruise
38 Great Black-backed Gull - 3 cruise
5 Forster's Tern
5 Rock Pigeon
1 Red-bellied Woodpecker
32 Fish Crow
2 Tree Swallow
19 Barn Swallow
1 Northern Mockingbird
29 European Starling
5 Song Sparrow
2 Northern Cardinal
20 Red-winged Blackbird
2 Eastern Meadowlark
17 Boat-tailed Grackle
1 House Finch
7 House Sparrow
691 51 species
Butterflies
6 Cabbage White
exotic/domestic pets
26 cats
4 Numbian? Goats - across channel from Smith is
57 species total for Point Lookout and Smith Is.
Afterward, Bob Ringler and I went on to several
roadside birding spots within a mile or two from state
park.
Highlight of the trip was 18 Wilson's Snipe, 2
Killdeer, 1 yellow Palm Warbler along Long Neck Rd;
10 Bonaparte's Gull, 7 Field Sparrow, 2 Savannah
Sparrow and 2 Eastern Meadowlark along Camp Brown Rd;
2 Clapper Rail, 1 Brown-headed Nuthatch and tons of
passerines along Cornfield Harbor Rd/Cornfield Harbor
Dr; 1 each Great Egret, Brown-headed Nuthatch,
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher, Brown Thrasher and Pine Warbler
along Rodo Beach Rd/Lake Dr; 3 Common Loon, 2 Laughing
Gull along Airedele Rd. 86 species total for the day
Kevin Graff
Jarrettsville, MD & Ocean City, MD
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