Hi all,
8/21/05
620am-720am (on my way to Dorchester for waterbirds)
Rt 50 borrow pit & along Rt 50, Salibury, Wicomico
Co., MD
Weather: fog lift off then haze, 75 degree, SE 3 mph-
S 3 mph
1 Great Blue Heron
2 Great Egret
1 Snowy Egret
4 Little Blue Heron - all imm.
2 Glossy Ibis
9 Turkey Vulture - small roost few miles W of pit
16 Canada Goose
2 Wood Duck
21 Mallard
5 Blue-winged Teal
5 Semipalmated Plover
32 Killdeer
2 Greater Yellowlegs
11 Lesser Yellowlegs
3 Solitary Sandpiper
2 Spotted Sandpiper
10 Least Sandpiper
1 White-rumped Sandpiper
2 Pectoral Sandpiper
1 Stilt Sandpiper
1 Short-billed Dowitcher
1 Wilson's Phalarope - basic plumage
9 Laughing Gull
8 Mourning Dove - along wires on Rt 50
1 American Crow - nearby corn fields up road
18 Purple Martin - headed SE, before bridge
22 Barn Swallow
1 Northern Mockingbird
88 European Starling - along wires on Rt 50
1 Song Sparrow
1 Swamp Sparrow
1 Indigo Bunting
31 Red-winged Blackbird
8 Brown-headed Cowbird - w/ starlings
9 American Goldfinch
332 35 species
Dragonflies
10 Common Green Darner
1 Cyrano Darner
9 Twelve-spotted Skimmer
1 Common Whitetail
8am-840am
Along Maple Dam Rd between Rt. 16 & Shorters Wharf,
Cambridge, Dorchester Co., MD
Weather: Haze, 79-80 degree, SW 5 mph- W 6 mph
1 Great Blue Heron
1 Great Egret - flooded road N of Shorters Wharf
2 Wood Duck
3 Osprey
30 Laughing Gull
1 Ring-billed Gull
1 Clapper Rail - flooded road N of Shorters Wharf
1 Virginia Rail - flooded road
1 Greater Yellowlegs - flooded road
8 Lesser Yellowlegs - flooded road
12 Mourning Dove
2 Ruby-throated Hummingbird
1 Eastern Kingbird
1 American Crow
1 Red-eyed Vireo
8 Purple Martin
7 Tree Swallow
11 Barn Swallow
1 Brown-headed Nuthatch
1 Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
1 Eastern Bluebird
1 American Robin
2 Northern Mockingbird
235 European Starling
1 Pine Warbler
1 Common Yellowthroat
1 Chipping Sparrow
2 Seaside Sparrow - flooded road
5 Song Sparrow - flooded road
1 Blue Grosbeak
5 Indigo Bunting
12 Red-winged Blackbird
2 Brown-headed Cowbird
3 House Finch
2 American Goldfinch
2 House Sparrow
370 36 species
Butterflies
10 Cabbage White
1 Clouded Sulfer
20 Orange Sulfer
1 Cloudless Sulfer
4 Eastern Tailed Blue
1 Meadow Fritillary
1 American Snout - Little Blackwater R.
11 Monarch
2 Silver-spotted Skipper
1 Zabulon Skipper
2 Salt Marsh Skipper
Dragonflies
2 Common Green Darner
2 Twelve-spotted Skimmer
19 Needham's Skimmer
109 Little Blue Dragonlet - never saw that many
1078 Seaside Dragonlet
1 Elfin Skimmer
19 Blue Dasher
53 Eastern Pondhawk
1 Black Saddlebag
4 Faded Pennant
915am-945am
Blackwater NWR "Bishops Head Point" Division/
Chesapeake Bay Foundation "Karen Noonan Center for
Environmental Education" (private), along Phillips
Gunning Club Rd., Crocheron, Dorchester Co., MD
Weather: Haze/PC, 82-84 degree, WSW 8 mph- WSW 9 mph
2 Double-crested Cormorant
2 Great Blue Heron
7 Great Egret
3 Snowy Egret
2 Little Blue Heron
3 Mute Swan - 2 ad & 1 imm.
4 Osprey
1 Bald Eagle
1 Northern Harrier - female
2 Laughing Gull
1 Ring-billed Gull
4 Herring Gull
2 Great Black-backed Gull
1 Rock Pigeon
2 Mourning Dove
2 Ruby-throated Hummingbird
1 Blue Jay
1 Northern Mockingbird
1 Brown-headed Nuthatch
4 European Starling
1 Seaside Sparrow
1 Salt Marsh Sharp-tailed Sparrow
16 Red-winged Blackbird
6 Common Grackle
2 Boat-tailed Grackle
5 House Sparrow
77 26 species
Dragonflies
2 Monarch
5 Needdham's Skimmer
302 Seaside Dragonlet
28 Eastern Pondhawk
1 Four-spotted Pennant
Marine Invertebrates (low tide - excellent for them)
11 Salt Marsh Snail
2 Marsh Periwinkle
3 Blue Crab - strangled in puddle at church
after a high tide a while ago,
grab all three to nearby marsh
5161 Sand Fiddler Crab
1015am-1125am
Upper & Middle Hooper Islands, Hoopers Island Rd &
Hoopersville Rd, Fishing Creek, Dorchester Co., MD
Weather: Haze/PC, 85-87 degree, NW 9 mph
311 Double-crested Cormorant - 291 at 2 pound nets
1 Brown Pelican - second pound nets
10 Great Blue Heron - 8 at pound nets
2 Great Egret
1 Snowy Egret
1 Tricolored Heron - at pound nets
7 Canada Goose
3 Mute Swan
6 Osprey - 2 at pound nets
2 Killdeer
1 Willet
31 Laughing Gull - 7 at pound nets
1 Ring-billed Gull
81 Herring Gull - 10 at pound nets
48 Great Black-backed Gull - 11 at pound nets
2 Royal Tern - pound nets
1 Common Tern - pound nets
16 Forster's Tern - pound nets
3 Mourning Dove
1 Belted Kingfisher
8 Fish Crow
2 Purple Martin - headed N from Lower Hooper Is
7 Barn Swallow
1 American Robin
1 Northern Mockingbird
66 European Starling
34 Cedar Waxwing - headed N from Middle Hooper Is
1 Song Sparrow
1 Northern Cardinal
7 House Sparrow
657 30 species
Butterflies
2 Monarch
2 Cabbage White
Dragonflies
16 Seaside Dragonlet
6 Eastern Pondhawk
Marine Invertebrates
222 Sand Fiddler Crab - end of Hoopersville Rd
Kevin Graff
Jarrettsville, MD & Ocean City, MD
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