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Great May Day

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Jeff Shenot

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Jeff Shenot

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Fri, 2 May 2008 13:56:44 -0400

I was working yesterday morning at Chesapeake Bay Environemntal Center 
(a.k.a. Horsehead Wetlands Center; located in Grasonville), and saw about 80 
species there in 4.5 hours (including 1 hour inside).  Later in the day (after 
work, late pm) I added to my day's sightings by looking around at a couple 
locations in Prince George's County; ended up with 107 species for the day.

Highs:  The large flock of Ruddy Ducks that was at CBEC 3 weeks ago has 
dwindled but there are still 500 + Ruddys there!
Lows:  Still seems to be slow with warbler diversity, although last Sunday 
there was a small fall-out of Yellow-rumps; when I came out my house in early 
morning there were at least 100 in the yard.  All very busy with feeding and 
lots of calling.  I tried but could not locate anything with them other than 
yellow-rumps.

5/1/2008		107 species total

Chesapeake Bay Environmental Center (Grasonville, MD)

Red-throated Loon (1 fly by)
Common Loon (4 or 5 fly-bys)
Double-crested Cormorant
Great Blue Heron
Great Egret
Snowy Egret
Turkey Vulture
Canada Goose
Mute Swan
Wood Duck
American Black Duck
Mallard
Blue-winged Teal
Green-winged Teal
Canvasback
Ruddy Duck - 500+
Osprey
Bald Eagle
Northern Harrier
Red-tailed Hawk
American Coot
Killdeer
Lesser Yellowlegs - 7
Solitary Sandpiper - 1
Least Sandpiper - 6
Ring-billed Gull
Herring Gull
Great Black-backed Gull
Caspian Tern
Foster's Tern
Least Tern
Rock Pigeon
Mourning Dove
Red-bellied Woodpecker
Downy Woodpecker
Hairy Woodpecker
Northern Flicker
Pileated Woodpecker
Great-crested Flycatcher
Eastern Kingbird
Blue Jay
American Crow
Fish Crow
Purple Martin
Tree Swallow
Bank Swallow
Barn Swallow
Carolina Chickadee
Tufted Titmouse
Red-breasted Nuthatch
Carolina Wren
House Wren
Marsh Wren
Ruby-crowned Kinglet
Eastern Bluebird
Wood Thrush
American Robin
Gray Catbird
Northern Mockingbird
Brown Thrasher
European Starling
Northern Parula
Yellow-rumped Warbler
Yellow-throated Warbler - 1 calling (finally, FOY!)
Pine Warbler
Common Yellowthroat
Scarlet Tanager
Eastern Towhee
Chipping Sparrow
Savannah Sparrow
Seaside Sparrow - 2 calling
Song Sparrow
Swamp Sparrow
White-throated Sparrow
Northern Cardinal
Blue Grosbeak
Red-winged Blackbird
Common Grackle
Brown-headed Cowbird
Orchard Oriole
American Goldfinch

Chesapeake Bay Bridge (Route 50)
Glossy Ibis - 7 in a fly-by flock passing over the bridge 

PG County Landfill (this is closed to public; Upper Marlboro, MD)
Black Vulture
Sharp-shinned Hawk
Red-shouldered Hawk
American Kestrel
Sora - 1 calling 
Greater Yellowlegs
Spotted Sandpiper
Laughing Gull
Eastern Phoebe
Red-eyed Vireo
Northern Rough-winged Swallow
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
Yellow Warbler
Prairie Warbler
Ovenbird
Field Sparrow

Mt Calvert Manor (Pat. River Park, Upper Marlboro, MD)
Grasshopper Sparrow - 2

Residence (Croom, MD)
Chimney Swift
Ruby-throated Hummingbird
White-eyed Vireo
American Redstart
Summer Tanager
Indigo Bunting
House Finch
House Sparrow

Cheers-
Jeff Shenot
Croom MD

P.S.  I second Matt's thank you to Jim S., and also want to thank all the other 
great birders in MD (like yourself Matt!) who we have all learned a lot from.  It 
is a great state to live in!