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Great day to bird around the Pocomoke area

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Jennifer Elmer

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Mon, 25 Feb 2008 12:29:49 EST

Yesterday my dad and I accompanied Marcy Stutzman, Winger West, and  Dave 
Brenneman on a birding tour of Pocomoke and the surrounding  areas. We started at 
the  Pocomoke sand pits then Pocomoke Sound  WMA after that we went to Janes 
Island State Park and to  finish our birding tour at Rumbly Point. 
Uncertain about some #'s so I omitted them.
(*) Highlights of the day, 1 Great horned Owl that was mobbed by  a murder of 
Crows at Pocomoke Sound WMA. another  was a pair of  Pine Warblers at Janes 
Island and the last was the Short eared Owl at  Rumbly Point.
 
At the Pocomoke Sand Pits,
1 Belted King Fisher
Pied billed Grebes
Canada Geese  
Mallards 
1 Ring necked Duck
Ruddy ducks  
Turkey Vultures   
5 Bald Eagles 
3 Red shouldered Hawks 
Red tailed Hawks 
6 Wild Turkeys 
American Coots
Wood Ducks
Ring billed Gulls
Morning  Doves  
Northern Cardinals 
Song Sparrows 
White Throated Sparrow 
Dark eyed Junco
Red winged Blackbirds
Common Grackles 
1 Downy Woodpecker 
Red bellied Woodpeckers
Blue Jay 
American Crows 
Carolina Chickadees 
Carolina Wrens 
Golden crowned Kinglets 
Eastern Bluebirds
American Robins
European Starlings 
Yellow rumped Warblers 
 
Birds to add At Pocomoke Sound WMA
Great Blue Heron 
Common Goldeneyes
Canvasbacks
Redhead
Buffleheads 
Black Vultures
Northern Harriers
2 Coopers Hawks
American Kestrels 
King Rails
Virginia Rails 
Herring Gulls 
Great Black backed Gulls 
* Great horned Owl 
Northern Flicker 
Horned Lark
Fish Crows
Tufted Titmice 
Brown headed Nuthatch 
Ruby Crowned kinglet 
Northern Mockingbird 
Brown Thrasher 
Eastern Towhee 
Savannah Sparrow 
Swamp Sparrow
Eastern Meadowlarks 
 
Birds to add from Janes Island State Park
1 Great Egret
Red breasted Mergansers
Killdeer 
Wilson's Snipe
Cedar Waxwings 
* 2 Pine Warblers (  1 brilliant colored male and 1 female )
House Sparrows
House Finches
1 Fox Sparrow
Brown headed Cowbirds
 
Birds to add from  Rumbly Point,
1 Northern Gannet
American black Duck
1 Clapper Rail
Greater Yellowlegs 
Dunlin
*1 Short eared Owl 
Off topic ( Did anyone ever have experience with frogs responding to  Rail 
calls. ? )
                                                                              
                                         Birding forever
                                                                              
                                       Jennifer Elmer
                                                                              
                               Pocomoke City MD   
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
  
   
 
 
 
  
  
 
 
 
      



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