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Gulls and Terns at Claiborne Landing

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Les Roslund

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Les Roslund

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Wed, 15 Aug 2007 17:29:31 -0400

Inspired by Kevin Graff's report from an 8/13 visit to Claiborne Landing in
Talbot County, I stopped in at that site today around noon.  Four Tern
species and four Gull species were there for the viewing;
Common Tern - at least one
Forster's Tern - a dozen or more
Royal Tern - 1
Caspian Tern - 3
Great Black-backed Gull - 1
Laughing Gull - several
Ring-billed Gull - several
Herring Gull - 1

 	At home near Tunis Mills this morning, I was entertained by a turf
battle between a Hummingbird and a Tufted Titmouse.  The Hummer had decided
that it "owned" all perching rights on a young crab apple tree near the
Hummer feeder that we have above our deck.  A Tufted Titmouse wanted to use
the same tree as an intermediate stopping point as it went back and forth
from a sunflower seed feeder, also near the deck.
	When I first saw the battle, the Titmouse had come to the tree, only
to be immediately under attack from the Hummer.  Round and round and round
they went,including in and out of the leaf canopy of the tree.  Great fun to
watch - but the persistence of the hummer won out - and the titmouse shifted
to a different tree for the perching that it wanted to do.

Les Roslund
Talbot County
Easton MD 21601


-----Original Message-----
From: Maryland Birds & Birding [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
Behalf Of Kevin Graff
Sent: Tuesday, August 14, 2007 4:00 PM
To: 
Subject: [MDOSPREY] Poplar Island, 08/13/07


Hi all,


   I know it been a while to post anything.


08/13/07 - 825am-835am
Claiborne Landing Boat Ramp, Claiborne Landing Rd.,
Claiborne, Talbot Co., MD

WEATHER: Sunny, 79 degrees, NNW 4 mph
OBSERVERS: Bob Ringler, John Dennehy, Kevin Graff

Brown Pelican - 7
Double-crested Cormorant - 2
Great Blue Heron - 3
Green Heron - 2
Osprey - 3
Laughing Gull - 28
Ring-billed Gull - 7
Herring Gull - 4
Great Black-backed Gull - 1
Caspian Tern - 2
Common Tern - 3
Forster's Tern - 24
Fish Crow - 4
Barn Swallow - 5
American Robin - 1 (along road)
Northern Mockingbird - 2 (along road)
European Starling - 2
Indigo Bunting - 1 (on wires along road)
SPECIES: 18
TOTAL BIRDS: 101

08/13/07 - 930am-110pm
Paul Sarbanes Ecosystem Restoration Project at Poplar
Island, Tilghman Island, Talbot Co., MD

WEATHER: Sunny, 79-86 degrees, NNW 9 mph- NW 11 mph
LEADERS: Katelin Mielke/Robin Batcheller
COORDINATOR: Kevin Graff
OBSERVERS: 12

Mute Swan - 1
American Black Duck - 4
Mallard - 28
Northern Shoveler - 1
Surf Scoter - 1
Double-crested Cormorant - 682
Great Blue Heron - 18
Great Egret - 3
Snowy Egret - 2
Cattle Egret - 1
Osprey - 34
Bald Eagle - 4 
Black-bellied Plover - 2
Semipalmated Plover - 51
Killdeer - 18
Greater Yellowlegs - 1
Lesser Yellowlegs - 22
Spotted Sandpiper - 22 
Ruddy Turnstone - 3
Sanderling - 26
Semipalamted Sandpiper - 117 
Western Sandpiper - 20
Least Sandpiper - 237
White-rumped Sandpiper - 3
peep sp. - 96
Short-billed Dowitcher - 2 
Laughing Gull - 152
Ring-billed Gull - 29
Herring Gull - 358
Great Black-backed Gull - 881
Caspian Tern - 2
Royal Tern - 1
Common Tern - 377
Forster's Tern - 1 (seen by one observer)
Least Tern - 56
Black Tern - 1 (seen by one observer)
American Crow - 1
Fish Crow - 4
Tree Swallow - 3
Bank Swallow - 6
Barn Swallow - 41
European Starling - 15
Red-winged Blackbird - 66
Common Grackle - 1
Brown-headed Cowbird - 23
SPECIES: 44
TOTAL BIRDS: 3417

BUTTERFLIES
Black Swallowtail - 1 
Swallowtail sp. - 1
Cabbage White - 2
Orange Sulphur - 3
Cloudless Sulphur - 1
Monarch - 17

DRAGONFLIES
Common Green Darner - 14
Eastern Pondhawk - 6
Seaside Dragonlet - 2
Blue Dasher - 12
Black Saddlebags - 13



     Kevin Graff
     West Ocean City, MD
     




       
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