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May Count, Irish Grove and Vicinity

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Paul Bystrak

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Paul Bystrak

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Mon, 12 May 2008 23:12:28 -0400

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)

This report was generated automatically by eBird v2


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