Hi all,


   Sorry I'm very late. It been a long tiring week at
Irish Grove and a 24-hour duty shift at the firehouse
Mon-Tues. 

10/26/07 - 730am-5pm
Irish Grove Sanctuary, Rumbley Point Rd., Marion,
Somerset Co., MD (RP Rumbley Point)

WEATHER: Light rain/overcast, 66-68 degrees, E 19 mph-
         ESE 12 mph
OBSERVERS: 5

American Black Duck - 8 (RP)
Mallard - 7 (RP)
Double-crested Cormorant - 59 (RP)
Great Blue Heron - 1 (RP)
Great Egret - 2 (RP)
Snowy Egret - 1 (RP)
Black Vulture - 2
Bald Eagle - 3 (both sites)
Northern Harrier - 2 (both sites)
Merlin - 1
Greater Yellowlegs - 3 (RP)
Laughing Gull - 1 (RP)
Herring Gull - 1 (RP)
Great Black-backed Gull - 2 (RP)
Royal Tern - 7 (RP)
Forster's Tern - 2 (RP)
Mourning Dove - 2
Downy Woodpecker - 1
Northern Flicker - 1
American Crow - 4
Tree Swallow - 1536 (in between rains)
Red-breasted Nuthatch - 1
Brown-headed Nuthatch - 2
Eastern Bluebird - 1
American Robin - 1
Northern Mockingbird - 2
Yellow-rumped Warbler - 6
Savannah Sparrow - 11 (RP)
Saltmarsh Sharp-tailed Sparrow - 1 (RP)
Song Sparrow - 1
Red-winged Blackbird - 13
Boat-tailed Grackle - 1
SPECIES: 32
TOTAL BIRDS: 1632

MAMMALS
House Mouse - 1 (have yet caught in trap)

10/27/07 - 730am-7pm
Irish Grove Sanctuary, Rumbley Point Rd., Marion,
Somerset Co., MD

WEATHER: Light rain/MC, 71-64 degrees, SSW 11 mph-calm
OBSERVERS: 8

Canada Goose - 10 (RP)
American Black Duck - 6 (RP)
Double-crested Cormorant - 1 (distance flyby, RP)
Great Blue Heron - 1 (RP)
Great Egret - 7 (RP, one flew by at Irish Grove)
Snowy Egret - 1 (RP)
Black-crowned Night Heron - 1 (heard calling, RP)
Turkey Vulture - 1
Bald Eagle - 3 (both sites)
Northern Harrier - 4 (both sites)
Sharp-shinned Hawk - 1
Merlin - 1 (RP)
Virginia Rail - 2 (heard calling, RP)
Clapper Rail - 12 (heard calling, both sites)
Greater Yellowlegs - 7 (RP)
Wilson's Snipe - 1 
Laughing Gull - 68 (RP)
Mourning Dove - 10
Eastern Screech-Owl - 3 (one heard by me)
Great Horned Owl - 2 (both sites)
Short-eared Owl - 1 (RP)
Belted Kingfisher - 2
Red-bellied Woodpecker - 1
Northern Flicker - 1
Pileated Woodpecker - 1
American Crow - 4 
Tree Swallow - 61
Carolina Chickadee - 5
Brown-headed Nuthatch - 1 (heard calling)
Carolina Wren - 2
Marsh Wren - 1 (heard calling)
Northern Mockingbird - 2
Brown Thrasher - 1 (Dotty's party)
Yellow-rumped Warbler - 15
Savannah Sparrow - 2 (RP)
Song Sparrow - 3
White-throated Sparrow - 3
Northern Cardinal - 2
Red-winged Blackbird - 64 (flocks)
SPECIES: 39
TOTAL BIRDS: 314

MAMMALS
Raccoon - 3

BUTTERFLIES
Common Buckeye - 1
Red Admiral - 1


      Kevin Graff
      Jarrettsville, MD & West Ocean City, MD
      



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