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Swan Harbor -SHOREBIRDS!

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Matt Hafner

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Thu, 19 May 2005 11:21:48 EDT

Swan Harbor was the place to be this morning with excellent shorebird  
habitat.  I will do my best to keep an eye on this place through the rest  of the 
summer.
 
Mallard - 6
Pied-billed Grebe - 2, one singing
Glossy Ibis - 1
Semi Plover - 12 minimum
Great Yellowlegs - 3
Lesser Yellowlegs - 15
Solitary Sandpiper - 8
Spotted Sandpiper - 6
Least Sandpiper - 50
Semi Sandpiper - 10
Short-billed Dowitcher - 21
Dunlin - 1
Marsh Wren - 1
Sedge/Marsh Wren - 1 backlit flying away, gut said Sedge Wren, but couldn't  
refind it and it wouldn't call
Savannah Sparrow - 1 getting late
Bobolink - 1
many Tree, Barn, Bank, and Rough-winged Swallows
 
Perryman area 
Blue Grosbeaks have returned along with Chats and 1 Willow  Flycatcher.  I 
didn't hear any Grasshopper Sparrows though.
Ran into one flock of migrants near the Club House Rd pond, Wilson's,  
Canada, Chestnut-sided, Northern Waterthrush, 2 Redstarts, 6  Blackpolls.
 
Bosley Conservancy had singing Prothonotary, Northern Waterthrush, and  Veery.
 
Matt Hafner
Bel Air, MD