Hi all,
830am-1130am - 8/7/05 w/ John Dennehy
Chesapeake Bay Environmental Center "Horsehead Wetland
Center" Discovery Lane, off of Perrys Corner rd.,
Grasonville, Queen Anne's Co., MD
Weather: Haze-MC-overcast then heavy rain by 11am,
80-77 degree, SE 8 mph - WSW 6 mph
3 Great Blue Heron
7 Great Egret
5 Snowy Egret
1 Little Blue Heron - imm.
3 Green Heron
1 Turkey Vulture - Grasonville
6 Canada Goose - lowest ever
5 Mute Swan
1 Wood Duck
6 American Black Duck
10 Mallard
4 Surf Scoter
2 White-winged Scoter
1 Black Scoter
15 Osprey - two nests are in progress of rebuilding
1 Greater Yellowlegs
1 Spotted Sandpiper
1 Laughing Gull
3 Herring Gull
4 Great Black-backed Gull
1 Caspian Tern - flyby
3 Common Tern
1 Forster's Tern
8 Least Tern
5 Mourning Dove
3 Ruby-throated Hummingbird - 1 FL
1 Downy Woodpecker
3 Northern Flicker
1 Pileated Woodpecker
3 Great-crested Flycatcher - 1 FL
5 Eastern Kingbird - 3 FL
1 American Crow - Grasonville
27 Fish Crow - mobbed owl several times
4 Purple Martin
9 Tree Swallow
2 Northern Rough-winged Swallow
1 Cliff Swallow - w/ Barn
89 Barn Swallow - staged, ready for migrating
3 Carolina Chickadee
2 Tufted Titmouse
2 Brown-headed Nuthatch
2 Carolina Wren
2 House Wren
3 Eastern Bluebird
20 American Robin
3 Gray Catbird
4 Northern Mockingbird
6 Brown Thrasher - 2 FL
47 European Starling
2 Pine Warbler
5 Common Yellowthroat
6 Eastern Towhee - 1 FL
2 Song Sparrow - one feeding cowbird chick
2 Swamp Sparrow
11 Northern Cardinal - 3 FL
2 Indigo Bunting
71 Red-winged Blackbird - several FL
12 Common Grackle
9 Brown-headed Cowbird - 2 FL
1 House Finch
12 American Goldfinch
476 61 species
Mammals
9 Eastern Cottontail
Amphibians
5 Southern Leopard Frog - all youngs
Butterflies
1 Pipevine Swallowtail
2 Eastern Tiger Swallowtail
2 Orange Sulfer
22 Silver-spotted Skipper
1 Least Skipper
Dragonflies
1 Bar-winged Skimmer
2209 Seaside Dragonlet
419 Eastern Pondhawk
2 Faded Pennant
105pm-235pm - 8/7/05
Swan Harbor Farm, Timber Lane, Havre De Grace, Harford
Co., MD
Weather: Cloudy, 77-80 degree, ESE 8 mph- 5 mph
2 Pied-billed Grebe
5 Double-crested Cormorant
5 Great Blue Heron
6 Green Heron
1 Turkey Vulture
3 Wood Duck
6 Mallard
2 Osprey
5 Bald Eagle
2 Red-shouldered Hawk
2 Semipalmated Plover
26 Killdeer
5 Greater Yellowlegs
15 Lesser Yellowlegs
4 Solitary Sandpiper
1 Spotted Sandpiper
3 Semipalmated Sandpiper
23 Least Sandpiper
6 Pectoral Sandpiper
2 Ring-billed Gull
5 Herring Gull
4 Great Black-backed Gull
1 Forster's Tern
5 Mourning Dove
2 Yellow-billed Cuckoo - flyby east to west
1 Eastern Phoebe - FL
9 Eastern Kingbird - 3 FL
11 Purple Martin ***Major staging of
53 Tree Swallow swallows over fields
10 N. Rough-winged Swallow & on wires. They're
74 Bank Swallow getting ready to head
5 Cliff Swallow south soon.***
179 Barn Swallow
1 Eastern Bluebird
2 Northern Mockingbird
57 European Starling - mobbed Red-shouldered Hawks
2 Common Yellowthroat
3 Field Sparrow
2 Song Sparrow
3 Indigo Bunting
62 Red-winged Blackbird
9 Common Grackle
5 American Goldfinch
1 House Sparrow
630 44 species
Mammals
1 Eastern Cottontail
Butterflies
3 Eastern Tiger Swallowtail
4 Zebra Swallowtail
2 Black Swallowtail
6 Cabbage White
1 Checkered White
16 Orange Sulfer
1 Cloudless Sulfer
1 Gray Hairstreak
3 Meadow Fritillary
1 American Lady
1 Monarch
26 Silver-spotted Skipper
1 Northern Cloudywing
1 Sachem
1 Least Skipper
Dragonflies
9 Common Green Darner
2 Common Whitetail
7 Twelve-spotted Skimmer
10 Blue Dasher
5 Golden-winged Skimmer
2 Band-winged Meadowhawk
11 Little Blue Dragonlet
89 Eastern Pondhawk
20 Black Saddlebag
1 Carolina Saddlebag
2 Halloween Pennant
1 Martha's Pennant
335pm-410pm - 8/7/05
Williams Rd. Pond and along Williams Rd., Elkton,
Cecil Co., MD
Weather: PC, 82 degree, SE 10 mph- SSE 10 mph
1 Great Blue Heron - flyby
1 Great Egret
8 Little Blue Heron
3 Cattle Egret
1 Glossy Ibis
3 Turkey Vulture
2 Canada Goose
5 Mallard
1 Canvasback - drake
1 Osprey - flyby
1 Virginia Rail
1 Black-bellied Plover - flew in as I was leaving
10 Killdeer
4 Greater Yellowlegs
18 Lesser Yellowlegs
3 Solitary Sandpiper
2 Spotted Sandpiper
17 Semipalmated Sandpiper
1 Western Sandpiper
4 Least Sandpiper
1 Pectoral Sandpiper
1 Short-billed Dowitcher
4 Mourning Dove
3 American Crow
3 Purple Martin - flyby
2 Tree Swallow
11 Barn Swallow
1 Northern Mockingbird
1 Chipping Sparrow
1 Song Sparrow
1 Blue Grosbeak
2 Indigo Bunting
5 Red-winged Blackbird
8 Common Grackle
3 American Goldfinch
134 35 species
Butterflies
2 Silver-spotted Skipper
Dragonflies
2 Common Green Darner
4 Blue Dasher
39 Eastern Pondhawk
1 Wandering Glider
1 Black Saddlebag
Kevin Graff
Jarrettsville, MD & Ocean City, MD
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