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Worcester Roundup

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Mark Hoffman

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Mark Hoffman

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Tue, 14 Nov 2006 21:48:15 -0500

We had another good Worcester "rarity roundup" this past Saturday, November
11.  19 observers in 12 parties covered the key habitats of the county, and
recorded 154 species, tying our second best (records is 155).   It will take
a little time to compile the numbers, but the highlights and species list is
below.  Thanks to all the participants.

 

Highlights (species new to count)

Green Heron (Ocean City, Ringler, Jewell and Terry)

Golden Eagle (Vaughn/North, Feild)

Piping Plover (Assateague/Bayside/Point, Stasz)

Semipalmated Plover (Assateague/North End, Holbrook, Brighton)

Bobolink (North County, Hafner, record Worcester late date)

 

Other species

Red-throated Loon; Common Loon; Pied-billed Grebe; Horned Grebe; Northern
Gannet; Brown Pelican; Double-crested Cormorant; American Bittern; Great
Blue Heron; Great Egret; Cattle Egret; Snowy Egret; Little Blue Heron;
Tricolored Heron; Black-crowned Night-Heron; Black Vulture; Turkey Vulture;
Snow Goose; Ross' Goose;  Canada Goose; Cackling Goose; Brant; Mute Swan;
Tundra Swan; Gadwall; American Wigeon; American Black Duck; Mallard;
Northern Shoveler; Northern Pintail; Green-winged Teal; Canvasback;
Ring-necked Duck; Greater Scaup; Lesser Scaup; Common Eider; Surf Scoter;
White-winged Scoter; Black Scoter; Bufflehead; Hooded Merganser;
Red-breasted Merganser; Ruddy Duck; Osprey; Bald Eagle; Northern Harrier;
Sharp-shinned Hawk; Cooper's Hawk; Red-shouldered Hawk; Red-tailed Hawk;
American Kestrel; Merlin; Peregrine Falcon;  Wild Turkey; Northern Bobwhite;
Clapper Rail; King Rail; Virginia Rail; American Coot; Black-bellied Plover;
Killdeer; American Oystercatcher; Greater Yellowlegs; Lesser Yellowlegs;
Willet; Ruddy Turnstone; Sanderling; Least Sandpiper; Purple Sandpiper;
Dunlin; Common Snipe; American Woodcock; Parasitic Jaeger; Laughing Gull;
Bonaparte's Gull; Ring-billed Gull; Herring Gull; Lesser Black-backed Gull;
Great Black-backed Gull; Royal Tern; Forster's Tern; Rock Dove; Mourning
Dove; Eastern Screech-Owl; Great Horned Owl; Barred Owl; Northern Saw-whet
Owl; Belted Kingfisher; Red-bellied Woodpecker; Yellow-bellied Sapsucker;
Downy Woodpecker; Hairy Woodpecker; Northern Flicker; Pileated Woodpecker;
Eastern Phoebe; Blue Jay; American Crow; Fish   Crow; Horned Lark; Tree
Swallow; Carolina Chickadee; Tufted Titmouse; Red-breasted Nuthatch;
White-breasted Nuthatch; Brown-headed Nuthatch; Brown Creeper; Carolina
Wren; House Wren; Winter Wren; Sedge Wren; Marsh Wren; Golden-crowned
Kinglet; Ruby-crowned Kinglet; Eastern Bluebird; Hermit Thrush; American
Robin; Gray Catbird; Northern Mockingbird; Brown Thrasher; European
Starling; American Pipit; Cedar Waxwing; Yellow-rumped Warbler (myrtle
form); Pine Warbler; Palm Warbler (western   form); Common Yellowthroat;
Eastern Towhee; Chipping Sparrow; Field Sparrow; Savannah Sparrow; Savannah
Sparrow (Ipswich form); Nelson's Sharp-tailed Sparrow; Saltmarsh
Sharp-tailed Sparrow; Seaside Sparrow; Song Sparrow; Swamp Sparrow;
White-throated Sparrow; Dark-eyed Junco (slate-colored form); Snow Bunting;
Northern Cardinal; Red-winged Blackbird; Eastern Meadowlark; Rusty
Blackbird; Common Grackle; Boat-tailed Grackle; Brown-headed Cowbird; House
Finch; American Goldfinch; House Sparrow

 

My photo highlights of the weekend below;

 

Sedge Wren   http://www.pbase.com/wcbirding/image/70232651

Saltmarsh Sharp-tailed Sparrow
http://www.pbase.com/wcbirding/image/70236819

 

Mark L Hoffman

Sykesville, MD