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Wicomico and Dorchester Counties birding, 8/21/05

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Kevin Graff

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Kevin Graff

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Mon, 22 Aug 2005 18:30:55 -0700

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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