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Red necked Grebe at Pocomoke Sandpits

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Jennifer Elmer

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Tue, 8 Jan 2008 19:33:34 EST

Sunday I went birding at the sand pits and found 2 Red necked Grebes  feeding 
with the Coots and Pied billed Grebes. 
Other birds at the sand pits,
20 Tundra Swans
100+ Canada Geese
5 Cackling Geese
100+ Coots
30 Ruddy Ducks
25 American Wigeon
4 Red heads
6 Pied billed Grebes
2 Red Tailed Hawks
1 Red Shouldered Hawk
3 Bald Eagle
5 Ring necked Ducks
1 Hooded Merganser 
2 Swamp Sparrow 
26 Junco
1 N Mockingbird
5 Golden crown Kinglet
2 Ruby crowned kinglet
3 Winter Wren
2 Carolina Wren
1 Brown Thrasher
30 White throated Sparrow
12 Song Sparrow
15 Cedar Waxwings 
 
I also went to Pocomoke Sound Wildlife Management Area off Back  Shelltown 
Rd, I referred to this area as Williams Point in earlier post, and saw  the 
following birds
6 Fox Sparrow
12 Swamp Sparrow
2 Field Sparrow
13 Chipping Sparrow
22 Song Sparrow
30 White throated Sparrow
12 Savanna Sparrow
3 Winter Wrens 
5 Carolina Wrens
15 Carolina Chickadees
57+ Yellow rumped Warblers
1 Pine Warbler
5 Hermit Thrush
40+ American Robins
2 Brown Thrashers
5 Grater Yellowlegs
2 Black bellied Plover
5 N Harrier 
3 Bald Eagle
2 Coopers Hawk
1 Downy Woodpecker
4 Hairy Woodpecker
3 Pileated Woodpecker
1 Gold Finch
4 House Finch     
8 Rufous sided Towhee
14 Pine Siskins
4 White crowned Sparrow
25+ E Blue Birds
2 GB Heron
17 Red winged Blackbirds 
1 Rusty Blackbird
30 Brown headed Cowbirds
28+ Brown headed Nuthatch
9 Red breasted Nuthatch
4 Brown Creepers
1 Belted Kingfisher
Today I went to bird at the sand pits again and the 2 Red necked Grebes  
where still there along with 1 Canvas Back and 2 N Shovelers.
                                                                              
                                                                       
Birding forever 
                                                                              
                                                                      
Jennifer Elmer
                                                                              
                                                                Pocomoke City 
MD
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
   



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