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A windy day at Assateague Island

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Jennifer Elmer

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Sun, 6 May 2007 21:24:43 EDT

Today I went to Assateague and saw the following birds even with the strong  
winds.
2 Yellow Warblers
6 Palm Warblers
2 Prairie Warblers
1 Least Sandpiper
2 Least Terns 
12 Forster's Terns
6 Dunlins 
12 Willet
5 Killdeers 
2 Long Billed Dowitchers 
15 Boat Tailed Grackles
6 Purple Sandpipers
4 Great Black Backed Gulls
1 Horned Grebe 
1 Red Breasted Merganser
50 Laughing Gulls
12 Double Crested Cormorants
2 Common Loons
4 American Oystercatchers
6 Greater Yellowlegs  
5 Great Egret
2 Snowy Egret 
7 Great Blue Herons  
and I wont forget the 15 ponies and 5 Sika Elk.   
Saved a Black Racer and a Eastern Painted Turtle from getting hit by a  cars 
on Rt 113.
Then went to Whiting Crossing north of Porters Crossing and saw  the 
following birds while releasing the turtle.
2 American Redstarts 
1 Scarlet Tanager
6 Blue Gray Gnatcatchers 
2 Catbirds
1 Prothonotary Warbler
1 Northern Parula
2 Yellow Throated Warblers
1 Worm eating Warbler
2 Ovenbirds
1 Prairie Warbler 
1 Blue Grosbeak 
1 Red Shouldered Hawk 
2 Ruby Throated Hummingbirds 
4 Great Crested Flycatchers 
1 Eastern Phoebe
1 Eastern Kingbird        
                                                                              
                                                      Birding forever
                                                                              
                                                     Jennifer Elmer
                                                                              
                                                Pocomoke  City MD  



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