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Poplar Island and beyond, 5/12/06

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Kevin Graff

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Kevin Graff

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Sat, 13 May 2006 16:09:26 -0700

Hi all,

Baltimore Bird Club trip

705am-725am
Along Rt 50 east from Bay Bridge to Talbot Co line,
Grasonville, Queen Anne's Co., MD

WEATHER: Fair, 52-54 degrees, calm

   5  Canada Goose
   4  Mute Swan
   1  Common Loon
   5  Double-crested Cormorant
   3  Osprey
  94  Laughing Gull - several fields 
   1  Herring Gull
   2  Great Black-backed Gull
   6  Least Tern - over Thompson Creek Mall roof
   1  Rock Dove
   4  Mourning Dove
   2  American Crow
   1  Tree Swallow
   4  Barn Swallow
   7  Red-winged Blackbird
   8  Common Grackle
  26  European Starling
   3  American Goldfinch
   1  House Sparrow
 178  19 species

735am-810am & 315pm-345pm
Rt 322/Rt 33 toward Tilghman, St. Michaels, Talbot
Co., MD

WEATHER: Fair, 54-59 degrees, calm- NW 6 mph
         Fair, 70-72 degrees, SSW 7 mph- SSW 10 mph

   4  Canada Goose
   3  Mallard
  11  Double-crested Cormorant - headed N
   3  Great Blue Heron
   1  Black Vulture - returned trip
   7  Turkey Vulture - same as above
   1  Osprey
   1  Cooper's hawk - returned trip
   1  Red-tailed Hawk
   5  Mourning Dove
   7  Chimney Swift - town of St. Michael, 2 Rt 322
   2  Eastern Kingbird
   2  Blue Jay
   2  American Crow
   3  crow sp.
   4  Barn Swallow
   2  Carolina Chickadee
   1  Eastern Bluebird
   8  American Robin
   2  Northern Mockingbird
  40  European Starling 
   1  Scarlet Tanager
   2  Blue Grosbeak
  10  Red-winged Blackbird
  97  Common Grackle
   2  House Sparrow - town of St. Michael
 222  25 species

810am-905am & 155pm-310pm (lunch)
Knapps Narrows Bridge area, off of Walnut Point Rd,
Tilghman, Talbot Co., MD

WEATHER: Fair, 59-61 degrees, NW 6 mph- NW 7 mph
         Fair, 70 degrees, SW 8 mph- SW 7 mph

   2  Canada Goose
   1  Mallard
   3  Double-crested Cormorant
   3  Great Blue Heron
   1  Turkey Vulture
   1  Osprey
   1  Ring-billed Gull - flyby WNW
   3  Herring Gull 
   3  Great Black-backed Gull
   2  Common Tern
   1  Downy Woodpecker
   2  Fish Crow
   1  Northern Rough-winged Swallow
   1  Barn Swallow
   1  Gray Catbird - flyby
   2  Northern Mockingbird
   7  European Starling
  11  Red-winged Blackbird
  16  Common Grackle 
   1  Brown-headed Cowbird
   2  American Goldfinch - flyby
   2  House Sparrow
  67  22 species

925am-135pm
Poplar Island Environmental Restoration Project

OBSERVERS: 15, 6 Baltimore, 2 Howard, 7 Tri-County

WEATHER: Fair, 61-68 degrees, NW 7 mph- WSW 9 mph

   3  Mute Swan
   2  Canada Goose
  13  American Black Duck
  65  Mallard
  23  Surf Scoter
   2  White-winged Scoter
  11  Black Scoter 
   1  Red-breasted Merganser
   8  Ruddy Duck
   3  Common Loon
 599  Double-crested Cormorant
  69  Great Blue Heron
  55  Snowy Egret - 52 at nest, 3 at south end
   4  Cattle Egret - at nest w/ Snowies
   2  Turkey Vulture
  22  Osprey - 11 nest around island 
   4  Bald Eagle
   1  Northern Harrier
  91  Black-bellied Plover
 196  Semipalmated Plover
   2  Killdeer
   2  American Oystercatcher
   7  Greater Yellowlegs 
 102  Lesser Yellowlegs
   1  Solitary Sandpiper
   4  Willet
   1  Spotted Sandpiper
  16  Ruddy Turnstone
   5  Sanderling
   8  Semipalmated Sandpiper 
 677  Least Sandpiper
  66  peep sp.
1838  Dunlin
   1  Short-billed Dowitcher
   1  Ring-billed Gull
 380  Herring Gull
  74  Great Black-backed Gull
   2  Royal Tern - headed N
 133  Common Tern 
   1  Least Tern
   9  Fish Crow
  41  Tree Swallow
  13  Northern Rough-winged Swallow
  10  Bank Swallow
  22  Barn Swallow
   2  Eastern Kingbird
   4  European Starling
   2  Common Yellowthroat
  84  Red-winged Blackbird
  35  Common Grackle
   2  Brown-headed Cowbird
4719  50 species (64 species overall)

Butterflies
   1  Question mark
   1  Angelwing sp.
 
Reptiles
   1  Diamondback Terrapin

Dragonflies
   1  Common Green Darner

Fishes
  80+ Mummichog


Poor day for warblers during May Count today but good
for other passerines. Will post it in the morning.


       Kevin Graff
       Jarrettsville, MD & West O.C., MD 
       
       (will leave apartment in O.C. to be in White 
        Marsh full time job soon)


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