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81st Dorchester County May Bird Count, complete list, May 3

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Henry Armistead

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Henry Armistead

Date:

Wed, 7 May 2008 10:16:52 -0400

81st DORCHESTER COUNTY, MD, May Bird Count, May 3, 2008, Saturday. 
Complete list. 

EFFORT:  3 parties, 3+ observers.  258 mi. by car, 3.5 mi. on foot.  11
P.M., Fri. until 10 P.M., Sat.  total party hours 30.5.

135 SPECIES.

For weather and other general commentary please see the report I posted a
few days ago concerning my personal count of the day.

PARTICIPANTS:  Terry Allen (leader of BNWR bird walk in company with Diane
Cole and c. 7 others);  Diane Cole (BNWR, Cambridge & extreme southern
parts of the county: Bishop's Head & Crocheron);  Harry Armistead, compiler
(EI, BNWR, SH, Moneystump Swamp & Hooper's Island). 

ABBREVIATIONS:  BNWR, Blackwater N.W.R.;  EI, Elliott Island Road;  SH,
Swan Harbor (north of Hooper's Island).  

COMPLETE LIST:

Canada goose 54.  mute swan 4 (EI).  wood duck 2.  American black duck 24. 
mallard 62.  blue-winged teal 1 male (BNWR).  green-winged teal 26. 
bufflehead 1 male (Cambridge).  red-breasted merganser 2 females (SH).  [9
waterfowl].  wild turkey 4.  northern bobwhite 4.  common loon 6.  

American white pelican 1 (BNWR).  brown pelican 6 (SH).  double-crested
cormorant 275.  great blue heron 34.  great egret 16.  snowy egret 33. 
tricolored heron 1 (EI).  green heron 3.  black-crowned night heron 1 (EI).
 glossy ibis 4 (EI). 

black vulture 4 (1 of them on top of a billboard right in the middle of the
Cambridge Route 50 strip).  turkey vulture 65.  osprey 53.  bald eagle 33. 
northern harrier 8.  Cooper's hawk 1 (Egypt Rd.).  red-tailed hawk 3. 
merlin 1 (Griffith Neck Rd., a male doing its deceptive, faux passerine
flight style, reminiscent of the way shrikes fly; flushed everything in one
field).  peregrine falcon 1 (BNWR).  [9 raptors; good total] 

clapper rail 20.  king rail 3.  Virginia rail 40.  common moorhen 5. 
black-bellied plover 4 (BNWR).  semipalmated plover 10.  killdeer 6. 
American oystercatcher 1 (SH).  black-ncked stilt 4 (EI).  greater
yellowlegs 15.  lesser yellowlegs 6.  solitary sandpiper 3.  willet 6. 
spotted sandpiper 2 (BNWR).  sanderling 1 (SH).  semipalmated sandpiper 8
(BNWR).  least sandpiper 17.  peep unIDd 2.  dunlin 235.  short-billed
dowitcher 2 (1 BNWR, 1 EI).  Wilson's snipe 1 (BNWR).  [16 shorebirds] 

laughing gull 602.  ring-billed gull 36.  herring gull 92.  great
black-backed gull 5.  Caspian tern 1 (EI).  royal tern 16 (SH & EI). 
common tern 1 (Hooper's I.).  Forster's tern 27 (low).  least tern 7
(nesting on the roof of Best Value Inn again).  [5 terns]  

rock pigeon 12.  mourning dove 48.  barn owl 1 (EI).  eastern screech-owl 1
(Lewis Wharf Rd.).  great horned owl 1 (Shorter's Wharf Rd.).  barred owl
2.  chuck-will's-widow 3.  chimney swift 10.  ruby-throated hummingbird 3. 


red-headed woodpecker 5 (widespread).  red-bellied woodpecker 4.  downy
woodpecker 1.  northern flicker 4.  pileated woodpecker 4 + one roadkill. 
eastern wood-pewee 1 (BNWR).  Acadian flycatcher 1 (Old Field Rd.). 
eastern phoebe 1 (BNWR).  great crested flycatcher 24.  eastern kingbird 9.
 white-eyed vireo 5.  red-eyed vireo 3.  blue jay 4.  American crow 33. 
fish crow 6.  

horned lark 3.  purple martin 20.  tree swallow 48.  bank swallow 1
(Robbins).  barn swallow 90.  Carolina chickadee 6.  tufted titmouse 19. 
brown-headed nuthatch 10.  Carolina wren 24.  house wren 6.  marsh wren 12.
 eastern bluebird 30.  wood thrush 2.  American robin 153.  gray catbird 7.
 northern mockingbird 16.  brown thrasher 2.  European starling 146.  cedar
waxwing 10 (Robbins).

yellow warbler 2.  yellow-rumped warbler 7.  pine warbler 16.  prairie
warbler 1.  prothonotary warbler 1.  ovenbird 7.  common yellowthroat 37. 
yellow-breasted chat 4.  [that's right; only 8 warbler species]  

summer tanager 10.  eastern towhee 4.  chipping sparrow 27.  field sparrow
6.  Savannah sparrow 7.  grasshopper sparrow 3.  saltmarsh sharp-tailed
sparrow 1.  seaside sparrow 59.  song sparrow 4.  swamp sparrow 3. 
white-throated sparrow 1.  northern cardinal 32.  blue grosbeak 12.  indigo
bunting 6.  [9 sparrows, not counting towhee]

bobolink 16 (Robbins).  red-winged blackbird 623.  eastern meadowlark 9. 
common grackle 551.  boat-tailed grackle 2 males (1 SH,1 EI).  brown-headed
cowbird 50.  orchard oriole 32.  house finch 6 (Cambridge).  American
goldfinch 12.  house sparrow 18.              
Best to all.-Henry ("Harry") T. Armistead, 523 E. Durham St., Philadelphia,
PA 19119-1225.  215-248-4120.  Please, any off-list replies to: 
harryarmistead at hotmail dot com  (never, please, to 74077.3176 ....)