Hi Folks!

Yesterday Matt Hafner and I started the day at the Bayside, Assateague Island NS parking lot...home of the "Sitting on Our Assateague" Big Sit Circle.? While we were waiting for other to arrive, we had two flyby Red Crossbills and later a single flyby Red Crossbill.? Based upon the call notes, there were tweo different "types": Type 3 and Type 4. [see: http://research.amnh.org/ornithology/crossbills/contents.html?].

Here is the complete list:


Location:???? ASSATEAGUE ISLAND NS--BAYSIDE
Observation date:???? 12/9/07
Notes:???? overcast, 44 F., no wind.? By flight call, two types of Red 
Crossbills, probably Type 3 and Type 4
Number of species:???? 32

Canada Goose???? 21
American Black Duck???? 16
Mallard???? 22
Northern Pintail???? 1
Surf Scoter???? 110
Bufflehead???? 247
Red-breasted Merganser???? 3
Common Loon???? 6
Horned Grebe???? 9
Sharp-shinned Hawk???? 1
Dunlin???? 1
Ring-billed Gull???? 6
Herring Gull???? 137
Great Black-backed Gull???? 8
Red-breasted Nuthatch???? 2
Carolina Wren???? 2
American Robin???? 40
Gray Catbird???? 1
Northern Mockingbird???? 3
Brown Thrasher???? 2
European Starling???? 2
Cedar Waxwing???? 1
Yellow-rumped Warbler???? 26
Eastern Towhee???? 1
Song Sparrow???? 3
Dark-eyed Junco???? 1
Northern Cardinal???? 1
Red-winged Blackbird???? 57
Rusty Blackbird???? 1
House Finch???? 4
RED CROSSBILL???? 3
American Goldfinch???? 7

This report was generated automatically by eBird v2(http://ebird.org)

Good Birding!

Jim

Jim Stasz
North Beach MD


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