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Talbot County Bird club walk on 9 - 2 Tilghman Island

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danny poet

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danny poet

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Sun, 2 Sep 2007 14:26:46 -0400

            Hi   all  19 birders members and guests  braved the wilds of 
Tilgman Island   in Talbot County  for the sunday morning walk on  sept 2 , 
07  . Led by Jan Reese  We ended the morning with  56 species by my count .  
we found   6 species of Warblers, No swallows  it seems  all went through 
last week .   It was the best  outting so far this fall  for the club
Highlights

Brown Pelican     15   rough estimate  several groups of them few down  the 
bay
Great Blue Heron    many   one with  a big fish
Green  Heron     1
Osprey      still lots around
Bald Eagle
Merlin    1
Spotted Sandpiper   1   on the riprap  at black walnut point
Common   Tern       several
Forster's Tern           several
Chimney Swift        2
Flicker
Pileated woodpecker       1       on the mainland near  Tilghman
Empid  Flycatcher      several     one of which looked like a yellow Bellied 
Flycatcher
Great Crested Flycatcher
Eastern Kingbird       1
Red Eyed vireo at least     5
BlueJay     2
Crows       both species
Red Breasted Nuthatch     5
Brown  Headed Nuthatch  several
Blue  Gray Gnatcatcher      several
Eastern  Bluebird        1
Veery     8           Jan   Reese commented on the hundreds they caught in 
the nets while banding
                          there one day many years  ago in  the 1960s  I   
think
Chestnut - sided Warbler      2
Yellow - Throated Warbler     1
Pine warbler        1
Black and White Warbler   3
American   Redstart       1 adult male    3   immature or female type
Canada Warbler     1
Blue Grosbeak     2
Baltimore  Oriole       several  seen by part ot the group

    Happy    Birding
Danny Poet
Queenstown , Md


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