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Talbot Co., 03/10/08

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Kevin Graff

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Kevin Graff

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Tue, 11 Mar 2008 13:48:20 -0700

Hi all,


03/10/08 - 930am-110pm
Paul Sarbanes Ecosystem Restoration Project at Poplar
Is., Talbot Co., MD

WEATHER: Fair, 36-46 degrees, S 4 mph- WSW 6 mph
LEADERS: Katelin Mielke/Robin Armetta
OBSERVERS: 9

Canada Goose - 154 (flock of 112 headed NW)
Mute Swan - 2
Tundra Swan - 31
Gadwall - 63
American Wigeon - 54
American Black Duck - 64
Mallard - 317
Northern Shoveler - 2
Northern Pintail - 83
Green-winged Teal - 143
Greater Scaup - 323  
Lesser Scaup - 39
Surf Scoter - 64
Long-tailed Duck - 461
Bufflehead - 144
Common Goldeneye - 34
Red-breasted Merganser - 2 (flyby)
Ruddy Duck - 9  
Common Loon - 3
Horned Grebe - 45
RED-NECKED GREBE - 1 (seen by two observers)
NORTHERN GANNET - 3
Great Blue Heron - 90 (flock of 70 flushed twice
woods)
Turkey Vulture - 1   
Osprey - 1
Bald Eagle - 2
Northern Harrier - 1
Killdeer - 38
Sanderling - 2 
Dunlin - 165
Ring-billed Gull - 20
Herring Gull - 393
Great Black-backed Gull - 84
Rock Pigeon - 1 
American Crow - 4
Tree Swallow - 2 (seen by unknown observer??)
European Starling - 35
Savannah Sparrow - 3 
Song Sparrow - 5
Red-winged Blackbird - 66
Common Grackle - 1
SPECIES: 41
TOTAL BIRDS: 2955

03/10/08 - 125pm-3pm (including lunch break)
Along Rt. 33, Mc Daniel, Talbot Co., MD

WEATHER: Fair/MC, 46-48 degrees, WSW 6 mph- SSW 11 mph
OBSERVERS: 3

Canada Goose - 2
Canvasback - 20 (am, only one on returned trip)
Bufflehead - 19
Wild Turkey - 8 (30 seen in am by several obs)
Turkey Vulture - 12
Bald Eagle - 1
Red-tailed Hawk - 2
American Kestrel - 1
Bonaparte's Gull - 1 (bridge at Newcomb, returned
trip)
Ring-billed Gull - 3
Mourning Dove - 56
Blue Jay - 1
American Crow - 2
Fish Crow - 1 (heard calling at the dock) 
Eastern Bluebird - 21
American Robin - 11
Northern Mockingbird - 2
European Starling - 45
Song Sparrow - 1
Red-winged Blackbird - 150
Common Grackle - 70
Brown-headed Cowbird - 6
SPECIES: 22
TOTAL BIRDS: 435

03/10/08 - 325pm-430pm
Pickering Creek Audubon Center, Audubon Ln., Easton,
Talbot Co., MD

WEATHER: MC, 48 degrees, SW 10 mph- SW 9 mph
OBSERVERS: 5

Canada Goose - 126
American Black Duck - 4
Mallard - 41
Green-winged Teal - 20
Northern Pintail - 26
Bufflehead - 10
Common Merganser - 3
Great Blue Heron - 1
Black Vulture - 1 (on way out)
Turkey Vulture - 3
Osprey - 1
Bald Eagle - 2
Wilson's Snipe - 3
Ring-billed Gull - 6
Rock Pigeon - 5 (on wires, Rt 662 near Rt 50)
Mourning Dove - 1
Downy Woodpecker - 1
Pileated Woodpecker - 1
Blue Jay - 3
American Crow - 1
Horned Lark - 1
Carolina Wren - 1
Eastern Bluebird - 5
American Robin - 10
Northern Mockingbird - 2
European Starling - 2
Song Sparrow - 3
Northern Cardinal - 1
Red-winged Blackbird - 1
Common Grackle - 1
SPECIES: 30
TOTAL BIRDS: 286

Fallon's had a calling Barred owl at Pickering Creek.



    Kevin Graff 
    Jarrettsville, MD & West Ocean City, MD
    



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