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Queen Anne's & Talbot Counties, 04/23/07

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Kevin Graff

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Kevin Graff

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Mon, 23 Apr 2007 15:09:19 -0700

Hi all,



04/23/07 - 930am-10am
Non-stop birding along Rt 50 (AACo tollbooth to QA/TL
line, Rt 50, Grasonville, Queen Anne's Co., MD

WEATHER: Fair, 66-72 degrees, S 4 mph- SE 10 mph

Canada Goose - 2 (Bay Bridge Pond)
Mute Swan - 1 (on nest at Bay Bridge Pond)
Mallard - 3 (Bay Bridge Pond)
Common Loon - 1
Northern Gannet - 4 (3 QA's & 1 AACo to QA's)
Double-crested Cormorant - 18
Great Blue Heron - 1 
Snowy Egret - 1 
Glossy Ibis - 1
Black Vulture - 7 (5 AACo by Rt 50 29A)
Turkey Vulture - 21
Osprey - 14 (one nest on big green sign middle of 50)
Laughing Gull - 1
Ring-billed Gull - 6
Herring Gull - 16
Great Black-backed Gull - 28
Caspian Tern - 1
Least Tern - 1 (flying over Thompson Creek Mall)
Rock Pigeon - 9
Mourning Dove - 1
Northern Flicker - 1
Pileated Woodpecker - 1 (flyby, AACo Rt 50 29A?)
American Crow - 1
American Robin - 4
European Starling - 16
Red-winged Blackbird - 46
Common Grackle - 10
Brown-headed Cowbird - 6
House Sparrow - 2
SPECIES: 29
TOTAL BIRDS: 224

04/23/07 - 1010am-1125am w/ Saunders', Leo Weigant +1
Covey's Landing flooded fields & public landing,
Covey's Landing Rd., Cordova, Talbot Co., MD

WEATHER: Fair, 72-77 degrees, SW 10 mph- SSW 11 mph

Canada Goose - 4
Wood Duck - 2
Mallard - 1
Great Blue Heron - 2
Turkey Vulture - 11
Osprey - 3 (nest on tree on L before 2nd sharp curve)
Bald Eagle - 1
Sora - 1 (public landing)
AMERICAN GOLDEN PLOVER - 1
Killdeer - 1
Greater Yellowlegs - 102
Lesser Yellowlegs - 19
Least Sandpiper - 3
Pectoral Sandpiper - 18
Dunlin - 6 
RUFF - 1 (alternate plumage male)
Wilson's Snipe - 2
Laughing Gull - 366
Ring-billed Gull - 52
Downy Woodpecker - 1
Eastern Kingbird - 1 (public landing)
Horned Lark - 3
Purple Martin - 17 (martin houses in town, #31069)
Tree Swallow - 8 (w/ martins)
Barn Swallow - 6
Eastern Bluebird - 2
American Robin - 8
Northern Mockingbird - 2
European Starling - 8
Louisiana Waterthrush - 1 (unknown named creek)
Song Sparrow - 1
Red-winged Blackbird - 29
Eastern Meadowlark - 1 (on way out)
Common Grackle - 3
American Goldfinch - 2 
House Sparrow - 2
SPECIES: 36
TOTAL BIRDS: 692

REPTILE
Red-eared Turtle - 1
Eastern Painted Turtle - 20
Snapping Turtle - 1

BUTTERFLIES
Cabbage White - 39
Clouded/Orange Sulphur - 1
Orange Sulphur - 3


     Kevin Graff
     Jarrettsville, MD & West O.C., MD
     


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