Hi all,
Missed my boat ride to Hart-Miller Is yesterday
morning due to my old clock stopped at 245am and I
woke up before 7am. too late.
Stayed home to cool off and later decided to go to
Cecil for shorebirds again. It's hard to keep track
as the guy cutting grass nearby kept disturbed them.
Shorebirds # going up with peeps coming/going on/off
for the last half hour. Slow day for land birds due to
heat.
425pm-535pm - 8/13/05
Williams Rd. Pond & along Williams Rd., Elkton, Cecil
Co., MD
Observers: Sean McCandless (45 min.), Kevin Graff
Weather: Fair, haze, increasing clouds later, S 12mph-
S 11 mph (doesn't feel like breezing)
4 Little Blue Heron - 1 ad, 3 imm.
1 Glossy Ibis
1 Turkey Vulture - MD/DE border
7 Killdeer
5 Greater Yellowlegs
23 Lesser Yellowlegs
6 Solitary Sandpiper
3 Spotted Sandpiper
51 Semipalmated Sandpiper - few more landed 535pm
1 Western Sandpiper
13 Least Sandpiper
1 Pectoral Sandpiper
1 Short-billed Dowitcher
1 Ring-billed Gull - Williams Rd/Rt 213
7 Mourning Dove
1 American Crow - MD/DE border
3 Tree Swallow - headed S
38 Bank Swallow - same as above
22 Barn Swallow - same as Tree
7 European Starling - flyby
1 Song Sparrow
1 Indigo Bunting
1 Red-winged Blackbird
2 American Goldfinch
201 24 species
Butterflies
1 Eastern Tiger Swallowtail
1 Monarch
2 Red-spotted Purple
1 Silver-spotted Skipper - 1 alive, 1 dead
Dragonflies
7 Common Green Darner
1 Comet Darner
5 Widow Whitetail
40 Common Whitetail
75 Twelve-spotted Skimmer
2 Golden-winged Skimmer
8 Eastern Pondhawk
16 Black Saddlebag
1 Carolina Saddlebag
*There was a couple of imm. Laughing Gulls chasing one
another at Big Elk Shoping Center as I waits for light
to turns green at Rt 40 and Rt 213. This shoping
center is home to Cecil Bird Club's carpooling. *
Kevin Graff
Jarrettsville, MD & Ocean City, MD
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