HI all,
03/29/08 - 7am-5pm
Full day Seawatch at Ocean City Inlet "Inlet Park",
South 2nd St., Ocean City, Worcester Co., MD
Counter: Kevin Graff
Observers: 5
WEATHER
7am-8am: PC, 41 degrees, N 15 mph-N 19 mph, Gust 26
8am-9am: Fair, 41-43 degrees, N 10 mph -NNE 19 mph
9am-10am: Fair, 43-44 degrees, NNE 19 mph- N 16 mph
10am-11am: Fair, 44-46 degrees, N 16 mph- N 10 mph
11am-1130: Fair, 46 degrees, N 10 mph
12pm-1pm: **on the road**
1pm-2pm: Fair, 46-48 degrees, NE 10 mph- NNE 11 mph
2pm-3pm: Fair, 48-50 degrees, NNE 11 mph- NNE 13 mph
3pm-4pm: Fair, 50 degrees, NNE 13 mph- NE 9 mph
4pm-5pm: Fair, 50-51 degrees, NE 9 mph- NE 10 mph
"Atlantic" Brant - 45 (13 headed N)
American Black Duck - 4 (2 headed N)
Greater Scaup - 4 (headed N)
Common Eider - 4 (tip of south jetty)
Surf Scoter - 402 (all headed N, none around jetties)
White-winged Scoter - 2 (same as above)
Black Scoter - 116 (same as above)
scoter sp. - 50 (headed N in distance)
Long-tailed Duck - 2 (headed N)
Bufflehead - 2
Red-breasted Merganser - 48 (46 headed N)
Red-throated Loon - 378 (339 headed N)
Common Loon - 23 (5 headed N)
Horned Grebe - 1
Northern Gannet - 2058 (headed N, none linger late pm)
Double-crested Cormorant - 23 (19 headed N)
Great Cormorant - 1
Peregrine Falcon - 1
American Oystercatcher - 1
Ruddy Turnstone - 13
Sanderling - 24 (16 headed N)
Purple Sandpiper - 2
Laughing Gull - 15 (10 headed N)
Bonaparte's Gull - 3 (headed N)
Ring-billed Gull - 52 (17 headed N)
Herring Gull - 109 (69 headed N)
Iceland Gull - 1 (headed N)
Great Black-backed Gull - 47 (38 headed N)
Forster's Tern - 2 (headed N)
Rock Pigeon - 11
Mourning Dove - 1 (coming in from ocean)
European Starling - 18
Boat-tailed Grackle - 2
House Sparrow - 4
SPECIES: 33
TOTAL BIRDS: 3469
Gannets by hours
2008 2007 2006 2005 2004
6am -7am: n/a n/a 81 n/a n/a
7am -8am: 664 165 244 39 4
8am -9am: 530 221 305 117 61
9am-10am: 228 226 1113 92 205
10am-11am: 231 95 510 151 109
11am-12pm: 88 52 428 99 52
12pm -1pm: n/a 78 181 262 227
1pm -2pm: 115 169 38 211 291
2pm -3pm: 88 53 29 581 499
3pm -4pm: 67 66 69 318 551
4pm -5pm: 47 69 32 18 43
5pm -6pm: n/a 268 n/a n/a n/a
6pm-630pm: n/a 59 n/a n/a n/a
2058 1521 3030 1888 2042
Other birds headed N by hours
7am -8am: 4 "Atlantic" Brant
26 Surf Scoter
2 Black Scoter
17 scoter sp.
2 Red-breasted Merganser
56 Red-throated Loon
3 Double-crested Cormorant
3 Ring-billed Gull
4 Herring Gull
4 Great Black-backed Gull
8am -9am: 18 Surf Scoter
21 Red-throated Loon
2 Double-crested Cormorant
6 Laughing Gull
8 Herring Gull
9 Great Black-backed Gull
9am-10am: 4 "Atlantic" Brant
59 Surf Scoter
44 Black Scoter
8 Red-breasted Merganser
25 Red-throated Loon
1 Common Loon
6 Double-crested Cormorant
3 Laughing Gull
1 Bonaparte's Gull
8 Ring-billed Gull
16 Herring Gull
7 Great Black-backed Gull
10am-11am: 52 Surf Scoter
9 Red-breasted Merganser
53 Red-throated Loon
2 Common Loon
4 Double-crested Cormorant
1 Laughing Gull
3 Herring Gull
11am-12pm: 2 American Black Duck
77 Surf Scoter
8 Red-breasted Merganser
35 Red-throated Loon
1 Double-crested Cormorant
16 Sanderling (2 flocks)
6 Herring Gull
6 Great Black-backed Gull
12pm -1pm: **on the road**
1pm -2pm: 66 Surf Scoter
30 Black Scoter
33 scoter sp.
8 Red-breasted Merganser
34 Red-throated Loon
1 Bonaparte's Gull
2 Herring Gull
7 Great Black-backed Gull
2pm -3pm: 40 Surf Scoter
2 White-winged Scoter
31 Black Scoter
2 Red-breasted Merganser
43 Red-throated Loon
1 Common Loon
3 Double-crested Cormorant
1 Bonaparte's Gull
6 Ring-billed Gull
10 Herring Gull
3pm -4pm: 20 Surf Scoter
2 Long-tailed Duck
9 Red-breasted Merganser
49 Red-throated Loon
1 Common Loon
14 Herring Gull
1 Iceland Gull (adult)
2 Forster's Tern
4pm -5pm: 5 "Atlantic" Brant
4 Greater Scaup
44 Surf Scoter
9 Black Scoter
23 Red-throated Loon
6 Herring Gull
5 Great Black-backed Gull
3214 birds in 20 species headed N (2968, 22 sp. in
2007)
03/29/08 - 1140pm-12pm
Along 32nd St & Bay, Ocean City, Worcester Co., MD
WEATHER: Fair, 46 degrees, NNE 12 mph
OBSERVERS: 2
Mallard - 5
Lesser Scaup - 12
Bufflehead - 82
Red-breasted Merganser - 7
Horned Grebe - 6
EARED GREBE - 1
Turkey Vulture - 4
Laughing Gull - 5
Ring-billed Gull - 8
Herring Gull - 5
Rock Pigeon - 1
Fish Crow - 9
American Robin - 5
European Starling - 2
House Sparrow - 1
SPECIES: 15
TOTAL BIRDS: 153
03/29/08 - 1215pm-1255pm
West Ocean City Pond, Golf Course Rd., West Ocean
City, Worcester Co., MD
WEATHER: Fair, 46 degrees, NE 10 mph
OBSERVERS: 2
Canada Goose - 10
Wood Duck - 2
Gadwall - 7
American Black Duck - 2
Mallard - 38
Northern Shoveler - 29
Green-winged Teal - 22 (11 prs)
Canvasback - 18 (1 drake, 17 hens)
Ring-necked Duck - 3
Hooded Merganser - 1 (hen)
Great Blue Heron - 1
Great Egret - 1
Black-crowned Night Heron - 2
GLOSSY IBIS - 3 (very early)
Turkey Vulture - 1
Rock Pigeon - 3
Mourning Dove - 1
American Crow - 2
Horned Lark - 1 (roadside, Seaside Village)
Tree Swallow - 6
American Robin - 2
European Starling - 2
Yellow-rumped Warbler - 5
Red-winged Blackbird - 4
Rusty Blackbird - 2 (roadside, Seaside Village)
Common Grackle - 4
American Goldfinch - 4
SPECIES: 27
TOTAL BIRDS: 176
03/29/08 - 520pm-605pm
BJ's On The Water Restaurant, 75th St & Bay, Ocean
City, Worcester Co., MD
WEATHER: Fair, 50 degrees, NE 10 mph- NNE 8 mph
OBSERVERS: 2
Canada Goose - 24
American Black Duck - 8
Mallard - 8
Red-breasted Merganser - 2
Great Blue Heron - 1
Sharp-shinned Hawk - 1
Clapper Rail - 2 (good view from window seat)
Ring-billed Gull - 3
Laughing Gull - 2
Rock Pigeon - 3
Mourning Dove - 1
European Starling - 1
Red-winged Blackbird - 1
Common Grackle - 11
House Sparrow - 4
SPECIES: 15
TOTAL BIRDS: 72
03/29/08 - 610pm-7pm
94th St woods, 94th St Bayside, Ocean City, Worcester
CO., MD
WEATHER: Fair, 49-48 degrees, NNE 9 mph
OBSERVERS: 2
Mallard - 5
Black-crowned Night Heron - 2 (Am Legion next door)
Laughing Gull - 1
Ring-billed Gull - 4
Rock Pigeon - 1
Downy Woodpecker - 1
Northern Flicker - 2
Eastern Phoebe - 1
American Robin - 16
Gray Catbird - 1
Northern Mockingbird - 2
Brown Thrasher - 2
European Starling - 2
Yellow-rumped Warbler - 17
Song Sparrow - 3
Swamp Sparrow - 1
White-throated Sparrow - 4
Northern Cardinal - 4
Red-winged Blackbird - 2
Common Grackle - 9
American Goldfinch - 1
House Sparrow - 1
SPECIES: 22
TOTAL BIRDS: 82
MAMMALS
Red Fox - 1
Kevin Graff
Jarrettsville, MD & West O.C., MD
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