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
This report was generated automatically by eBird v2(http://ebird.org)
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
Jim Stasz
North Beach MD
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