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Assateague Bayside Oct14

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Frode Jacobsen

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Wed, 17 Oct 2007 11:20:50 -0400

Hi,
I ventured out to Bayside Sunday morning to join the Big Sitters. We had a
fairly good and varied flight of warblers, sparrows, kinglets, and
blackbirds. When the morning flight culminated around 11am I decided to
put my boots on and wander out into the saltmarshes in the cove north of
the Bayside campground. That turned out to be a very smart choice as I
found most of the species listed by Matt H. as missing on the Big Sit
list:

Highlights:
Great Egret: 40+
Snowy Egret: 2
Tricolored Heron: 3 juvies
Little Blue Heron: 1 ad. + 1 juv.
Northern Harrier: 1 imm. male
Sharp-shinned Hawk: 1
American Kestrel: 1
Greater Yellowleg: 4
Black-bellied Plover: 1
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker: 1
Red-eyed Vireo: 2
Marsh Wren: 6
Red-breasted Nuthatch: 5
Brown Creeper: 3
Northern Mockingbird: 1
Brown Thrasher: 1
Common Yellowthroat: 3
Eastern Towhee: 1
Palm Warbler: 1
Field Sparrow: 1
Seaside Sparrow: 2
Saltmarsh Sharp-tailed Sparrow: 5+

Photos are posted at: http://www.flickr.com/people/frodejacobsen/

Good luck birding!

Frode Jacobsen
Baltimore, MD