Hi all,


03/03/07 - 830am-1135am
Chesapeake Bay Environmental Center "Horsehead" Discovery Ln., off of Perry's Corner Rd., Grasonville, Queen Anne's Co., MD

WEATHER: Sunny, 50-55 degrees, WSW 9 mph- W 5 mph
LEADER: Kevin Graff
OBSERVERS: 7
 
 Canada Goose - 31
 Mute Swan - 15
 Tundra Swan - 40 (est., Rt 213/Rt 50)
 Eurasian Wigeon - 1 (drake, Marshy Creek)
 American Wigeon - 29
 American Black Duck - 4
 Mallard - 54
 Northern Pintail - 6
 Green-winged Teal - 2
 Canvasback - 596 (Marshy Creek)
 Redhead - 3 (2 drakes, 1 hen)
 Greater Scaup - 3
 Lesser Scaup - 83
 Surf Scoter - 53
 Bufflehead - 158
 Common Goldeneye - 7
 Ruddy Duck - 421 (Marshy Creek)
 Great Blue Heron - 2
 Black Vulture - 9
 Turkey Vulture - 8
 Bald Eagle - 2
 Ring-billed Gull - 16
 Herring Gull - 5
 Great Black-backed Gull - 4
 Mourning Dove - 1
 Belted Kingfisher - 3
 Red-bellied Woodpecker - 4
 Downy Woodpecker - 1
 Hairy Woodpecker - 1
 Tree Swallow - 2
 Carolina Chickadee - 11
 Tufted Titmouse - 1
 Brown-headed Nuthatch - 2
 Carolina Wren - 3
 Eastern Bluebird - 6
 Northern Mockingbird - 4 (surprise to see no starlings??)
 Yellow-rumped Warbler - 21
Swamp Sparrow - 5
 White-throated Sparrow - 5 (very slow for sparrows)
 "Slate-colored" Junco - 3
 Northern Cardinal - 16
 Red-winged Blackbird - 37
 Common Grackle - 19
 House Finch - 4
 American Goldfinch - 9
 House Sparrow - 2
SPECIES: 46
TOTAL BIRDS: 1712
 
Along way is 2 Horned Lark landed in a field next to a new church on Rt 50 in Talbot County

03/03/07 - 1245pm-120pm
Waterfowl Viewing Area,  end of Oakley St., Cambridge, Dorchester Co., MD
 
WEATHER: Sunny, 60-61 degrees, SW 15 mph
OBSERVERS: 4

 Canada Goose - 2
 Tundra Swan - 3
 American Wigeon - 34
 Mallard - 18
 Canvasback - 628
 Redhead - 12 (11 drakes, 1 hen)
 Greater Scaup - 8
 Lesser Scaup - 251
 Surf Scoter - 39
 Bufflehead - 12
 Ring-billed Gull - 26
 Herring Gull - 2
 Rock Pigeon - 5
 Mourning Dove - 2
 American Robin - 1
 European Starling - 1
 House Sparrow - 1 (along road)
 SPECIES: 17
TOTAL BIRDS: 1045

03/03/07 - 245pm-530pm
 Ocean City Inlet "Inlet Park" S. 2nd St., Ocean City, Worcester Co., MD
(quick stop at Inlet Isle LN) 

WEATHER: Sunny, 58-49 degrees, S 10 mph- S 18 mph, gust up to 25 after 
                  5pm
OBSERVERS: 25
 
 Brant - 4
 American Black Duck - 2 (South Jetty)
 Harlequin Duck - 2 (both 1st W males)
 Surf Scoter - 355 (several flyby)
White-winged Scoter - 2 (flyby)
 Black Scoter - 51 (several flyby)
 Long-tailed Duck - 10
 Bufflehead - 4
 Red-breasted Merganser - 41
 Red-throated Loon - 13
 Common Loon - 48
 Northern Gannet - 6 
 Double-crested Cormorant - 3 (island)
 Great Blue Heron - 1 (island)
 Turkey Vulture - 1 (flyby harbor area)
 Ruddy Turnstone - 5 (South Jetty)
Sanderling - 18
 Purple Sandpiper - 11
 Bonaparte's Gull - 1
 Ring-billed Gull - 252
 Herring Gull - 85
 Great Black-backed Gull - 51
unid. alcid sp. - 1
 Rock Pigeon - 17
 European Starling - 12
 Song Sparrow - 1 (seawall, Inlet Isle Ln)
SPECIES: 26
TOTAL BIRDS: 997


        Kevin Graff
        Jarrettsville, MD & West O.C., MD (Apr 2007)
        


 
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