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Eastern Shore weekend - 8/28/05

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Kevin Graff

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Kevin Graff

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Mon, 29 Aug 2005 17:49:00 -0700

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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