I also birded on Assateague the rest of 10/13. Only additional bird of note was a single Marbled Godwit at the Fox Hill Levels. Not as cooperative as the bird on the beach earlier in the year, but nonetheless did pose for a few photos.....
http://www.pbase.com/wcbirding/image/87235820
Good birding,
Mark L. Hoffman
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From: Jim Stasz <>
> Hi Folks!
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> I preparation for the Big Sit, I scouted Assateague Island. Mark Hoffman
> joined me for a Little Sit" at the Bayside parking lot near the canoe rental.
> Mark already posted the highlight! a flybay Eurasian Collared-Dove. This was
> Mark's first for Assateague Island, but I had seen the one previously from just
> about the same spot I was standing ;-)
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> Location: ASSATEAGUE ISLAND NS--BAYSIDE
> Observation date: 10/13/07
> Notes: Eurasian Collared-Dove well seen; 2nd record for this location.
> Brant = American. Palm Warbler = 2 Eastern, 2 Western.
> Number of species: 81
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> Brant 66
> Canada Goose 26
> Wood Duck 6
> American Wigeon 7
> American Black Duck 10
> Mallard 2
> Northern Pintail 7
> Surf Scoter 234
> Common Loon 17
> Double-crested Cormorant 1011
> Great Blue Heron 69
> Great Egret 1
> Little Blue Heron 2
> Tricolored Heron 3
> Black-crowned Night-Heron 1
> Turkey Vulture 4
> Osprey 4
> Bald Eagle 2
> Sharp-shinned Hawk 1
> Red-tailed Hawk 2
> Merlin 3
> Black-bellied Plover 1
> Semipalmated Plover 1
> Greater Yellowlegs 3
> Lesser Yellowlegs 2
> Ruddy Turnstone 2
> Least Sandpiper 1
> Laughing Gull 150
> Ring-billed Gull 4
> Herring Gull 31
> Great Black-backed Gull 3
> Caspian Tern 8
> Royal Tern 19
> Eurasian Collared-Dove 1
> Mourning Dove 2
> Belted Kingfisher 2
> Yellow-bellied Sapsucker 1
> Downy/Hairy Woodpecker 2
> Northern Flicker 39
> Eastern Phoebe 2
> Blue-headed Vireo 2
> Blue Jay 1
> American Crow 1
> crow sp. 15
> Tree Swallow 6
> Red-breasted Nuthatch 17
> Brown Creeper 1
> Carolina Wren 3
> Golden-crowned Kinglet 1
> Ruby-crowned Kinglet 3
> Gray Catbird 8
> Brown Thrasher 3
> European Starling 1
> Cedar Waxwing 6
> Northern Parula 3
> Magnolia Warbler 1
> Black-throated Blue Warbler 8
> Yellow-rumped Warbler 174
> Prairie Warbler 1
> Palm Warbler 4
> Blackpoll Warbler 1
> Black-and-white Warbler 1
> American Redstart 1
> Common Yellowthroat 1
> warbler sp. 20
> Eastern Towhee 2
> Chipping Sparrow 6
> Field Sparrow 1
> Savannah Sparrow 3
> White-throated Sparrow 2
> White-crowned Sparrow 1
> Dark-eyed Junco 2
> Northern Cardinal 1
> Indigo Bunting 1
> Red-winged Blackbird 11
> Eastern Meadowlark 6
> Common Grackle 2
> Boat-tailed Grackle 18
> Purple Finch 3
> House Finch 4
> American Goldfinch 2
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> This report was generated automatically by eBird v2(http://ebird.org)
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> Mark and I split up. In the afternoon I drove the ORV Zone, but did not find
> anything unusual.
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> Location: Assateague Island NS--ORV Zone
> Observation date: 10/13/07
> Notes: LBBG: 10 1st, 2 2nd,2 3rd,. 1 ad.
> Number of species: 21
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> Surf Scoter 2
> Northern Gannet 3
> Brown Pelican 178
> Double-crested Cormorant 340
> Great Blue Heron 3
> Snowy Egret 2
> Osprey 1
> Black-bellied Plover 51
> Semipalmated Plover 9
> American Oystercatcher 1
> Ruddy Turnstone 6
> Sanderling 992
> Least Sandpiper 6
> Dunlin 18
> Laughing Gull 13
> Ring-billed Gull 161
> Herring Gull 1227
> Lesser Black-backed Gull 15
> Great Black-backed Gull 201
> Caspian Tern 69
> Royal Tern 3
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> This report was generated automatically by eBird v2(http://ebird.org)
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> After that it was nap time before the Big Sit. Matt Hafner will report on
> that.
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> Good Birding!
>
> Jim
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> Jim Stasz
> North Beach MD
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