Marylee Ross and I covered Irish Grove and surroundings on the May
Count. As everyone knows, it was a rather miserable day, with steady
rain and high winds most of the day. There were no real shorelines or
tidal flats due to the heavy rains and the high tides, so shorebird
counts were very low. We drove into Crisfield to get some supplies
around noon, and picked up a few species that we would have missed
otherwise. However, about 2:30 the clouds cleared out and we were
able to launch the canoe and travel many of the tidal creeks on the
property. Sunset was actually spectacular - dead calm and blazingly
beautiful.
Location: Irish Grove Sanctuary
Observation date: 5/10/08
Number of species: 88
Canada Goose 5
American Black Duck 17
Mallard 4
Wild Turkey 4
Double-crested Cormorant 2
Great Blue Heron 7
Great Egret 6
Snowy Egret 3
Black Vulture 1 (sitting on the roof of the sanctuary house)
Turkey Vulture 13
Osprey 1
Bald Eagle 2
Northern Harrier 4 (including 1 male doing a spectacular sky dance)
Red-tailed Hawk 1
Clapper Rail 62
Virginia Rail 12
Killdeer 1 (in town)
Spotted Sandpiper 1
Greater Yellowlegs 6
Willet (Eastern) 28
Lesser Yellowlegs 7
Least Sandpiper 2
Dunlin 18
Laughing Gull 192
Ring-billed Gull 3 (in town)
Herring Gull 1
Forster's Tern 4
Rock Pigeon 3 (in town)
Mourning Dove 9
Yellow-billed Cuckoo 1
Barn Owl 1 (same location as 2 years ago)
Eastern Screech-Owl 2
Great Horned Owl 5
Ruby-throated Hummingbird 2
Red-bellied Woodpecker 2
Downy Woodpecker 2
Hairy Woodpecker 2
Northern Flicker (Yellow-shafted) 3
Pileated Woodpecker 1
Eastern Wood-Pewee 1
Acadian Flycatcher 1
Least Flycatcher 1? (small, grayish, silent Empidonax in yard at
Irish Grove)
Great Crested Flycatcher 14
Eastern Kingbird 8
White-eyed Vireo 6
Red-eyed Vireo 3
Blue Jay 1
American Crow 11
Fish Crow 1
Tree Swallow 20
Barn Swallow 15
Carolina Chickadee 13
Brown-headed Nuthatch 8
Carolina Wren 37
House Wren 16
Sedge Wren 2 (unlike previous years, these were in good breeding
habitat. It would be worth checking the place again, but it's nearly
impossible to get to)
Marsh Wren 65
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher 9
Eastern Bluebird 6
American Robin 8 (in town)
Gray Catbird 4
Northern Mockingbird 3 (in town)
European Starling 21 (in town)
Yellow Warbler 1
Pine Warbler 13
Prairie Warbler 3
Ovenbird 6
Common Yellowthroat 61
Yellow-breasted Chat 6
Eastern Towhee 11
Chipping Sparrow 2
Field Sparrow 2
Saltmarsh Sharp-tailed Sparrow 1
Seaside Sparrow 92
Song Sparrow 16
White-throated Sparrow 1
Northern Cardinal 30
Rose-breasted Grosbeak 1
Blue Grosbeak 4
Indigo Bunting 16
Red-winged Blackbird 77
Eastern Meadowlark 9
Common Grackle 46 (in town)
Boat-tailed Grackle 11
Brown-headed Cowbird 8
Orchard Oriole 3
American Goldfinch 1
House Sparrow 6 (in town)
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