Hi all,
925am-125pm - 8/28/05
Assateague Island National Seashore (ORV Zone),
Bayberry Dr., Berlin, Worcester Co., MD
Observers: Stan & Elaine Arnold, George Jett, Kevin
Graff
Weather: MC-Fair, 78-81 degree, S 5K- SSE 8K
28 Brown Pelican
1 Double-crested Cormorant
1 Great Blue Heron
16 Great Egret
9 Snowy Egret
2 Cattle Egret
3 Turkey Vulture
1 Osprey
58 Black-bellied Plover - Fox Hill Level
72 Semipalmated Plover - 1 beach, 71 Fox Hill L.
1 Killdeer - Fox Hill Level
6 American Oystercatcher - beach
1 Greater Yellowlegs - Fox Hill Level
21 Lesser Yellowlegs - Fox Hill Level
32 Willet - beach
1 Whimbrel - beach
4 MARBLED GODWIT - Fox Hill Level
66 Ruddy Turnstone - beach
3284 Sanderling
119 Semipalmated sandpiper
21 Least Sandpiper
6 Short-billed Dowitcher
179 Laughing Gull
11 Ring-billed Gull
358 Herring Gull
231 Great Black-backed Gull
1 Lesser Black-backed Gull? - 2nd S, brief view
36 Caspian Tern
243 Royal Tern
96 Common Tern
4 Forster's Tern - Fox Hill Level
8 SANDWICH TERN
2 Least Tern
1 Rock Pigeon - Fox Hill Level
1 Ruby-throated Hummingbird - beach headed N
1 Eastern Kingbird
1 Fish Crow
53 Tree Swallow - Fox Hill Level
1 Common Yellowthroat
1 Field Sparrow - Fox Hill Level
2 Eastern Meadowlark - Fox Hill Level
1 American Goldfinch
5004 42 species
Mammals
11 Wild Ponies - beach
Butterflies
11 Monarch
Dragonflies
306 Seaside Dragonlet
335pm-430pm w/ Stan & Elaine Arnold & Mike Walsh
Rt 50 Borrow Pit & along Rt 50 westward, Salisbury,
Wicomico Co., MD
Weather: Fair-PC, 85-83 degree, variable 3K- SE 8 K
1 Great Egret
13 Little Blue Heron
1 Glossy Ibis
1 Turkey Vulture
26 Canada Goose
42 Mallard
1 Red-shouldered Hawk
2 Semipalmated Plover
28 Killdeer
6 Greater Yellowlegs
49 Lesser Yellowlegs
5 Solitary Sandpiper
4 Spotted Sandpiper
5 Semipalmated Sandpiper
161 Least Sandpiper
23 Pectoral Sandpiper
3 Wilson's Snipe
1 Wilson's Phalarope - still spinning
51 Laughing Gull
1 Rock Pigeon
2 Mourning Dove
1 Chimney Swift - along Rt 50
6 American Crow
52 European Starling - along Rt 50
3 House Finch
488 25 species
Reptiles
1 Snapping Turtle
Dragonflies
266 Common Whitetail
124 Twelve-spotted Skimmer
2 Eastern Pondhawk
100 Black Saddlebags - actual #
15 Carolina Saddlebags
8 Banded Pennant
5pm-550pm w/ Stan & Elaine Arnold
Hurlock Waste Water Treatment Plant, Enalls Rd.??,
Hurlock, Dorchester Co., MD
Weather: PC-MC, 82 degree, SE 8K- SSE 7K
1 Turkey Vulture
2 Snow Goose
1 Wood Duck
11 Mallard
1 Blue-winged Teal
4 Ruddy Duck
1 Semipalmated Plover
6 Killdeer
7 Lesser Yellowlegs
17 Spotted Sandpiper
19 Least Sandpiper
2 Pectoral Sandpiper
168 Laughing Gull
1 BLACK TERN
5 Rock Pigeon - nearby buildings
1 Mourning Dove
2 Eastern Kingbird
1 American Crow
59 Purple Martin
111 Tree Swallow
5 Northern Rough-winged Swallow
32 Bank Swallow
10 Barn Swallow
3 American Robin
1 Northern Mockingbird
2 European Starling
1 Song Sparrow
4 American Goldfinch
478 28 species
Reptiles
1 Eastern Painted Turtle
3 Snapping Turtle
Butterflies
1 Eastern Tiger Swallowtail
9 Cabbage White
8 Orange Sulphur
1 Clouded/Orange Sulpher - white form
2 American Copper
4 Gray Hairstreak
1 Eastern Tailed Blue
2 Mourning Cloak
2 Common Buckeye
3 Red-spotted Purple
4 Monarch
1 Common Wood-Nymph
1 Southern Cloudywing
Dragonflies
52 Common Green Darner
1 Swamp Darner
555pm-620pm w/ Stan & Elaine Arnold
Rt 331 sod farm between Rt 14 & Petersburg Rd.,
Hurlock, Dorchester Co., MD
Weather: MC, 82-80 degree, SSE 7K- ESE 6K
5 Killdeer
3 UPLAND SANDPIPER
20 Laughing Gull - flyby
1 Rock Pigeon
2 Mourning Dove
5 Tree Swallow
1 Barn Swallow
32 American Robin
1 Northern Mockingbird
102 European Starling
1 Red-winged Blackbird
8 Eastern Meadowlark
1 Common Grackle - flyby
2 American Goldfinch
184 14 species
640pm-655pm w/ Stan & Elaine Arnold
Rt 331 bridge "Taynard Marsh", along Dover Bridge Rd.,
Taynard, Caroline & Talbot Counties, MD
Weather: MC, 79-77 degree, SE 6K- calm
1 Great Blue Heron - Caroline
2 Mute Swan - Caroline
1 Wood Duck - Caroline
5 COMMON MOORHEN - Caroline
2 Semiplamated Plover - Caroline
11 Laughing Gull - both counties
1 Ring-billed Gull - both counties
2 Forster's Tern - both counties
1 Rock Pigeon - flyby along Rt 331, Caroline
1 Mourning Dove
1 Tree Swallow
808 European Starling - w/ grackles
1263 Red-winged Blackbird - 16 in marsh
7106 Common Grackle - 7 flocks, to roost SSE
399 Brown-headed Cowbird - w/ grackles
1 House Sparrow - along Rt 331
9605 16 species
Reptiles
1 Snapping Turtle
Butterflies
1 Monarch
1 American Snout
Dragonflies
2 Common Green Darner
3 Comet Darner
82 Needham's Skimmer
Kevin Graff
Jarrettsville, MD & Ocean City, MD
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