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Re: Assateague Island 10/13/07

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Mark Hoffman

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Mon, 15 Oct 2007 22:45:45 +0000

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

-------------- Original message -------------- 
From: Jim Stasz <> 

> Hi Folks! 
> 
> 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 ;-) 
> 
> 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 
> 
> 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. 
> 
> 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 
> 
> 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 
> 
> This report was generated automatically by eBird v2(http://ebird.org) 
> 
> After that it was nap time before the Big Sit. Matt Hafner will report on 
> that. 
> 
> Good Birding! 
> 
> Jim 
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> Jim Stasz 
> North Beach MD 
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