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Bird Blitz: Myrtle Grove WMA, Charles Co., 06/19/08

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Kevin Graff

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Sat, 21 Jun 2008 19:08:01 -0700

Hi all,


06/19/08 - 730am-1230pm
Myrtle Grove Wildlife Management Area, Myrtle Grove Rd., La Plata, Charles Co., MD

WEATHER: Sunny/Fair, 60-73 degrees, NW 7 mph- NW 8 mph
OBSERVERS: 2

Canada Goose - 8
Wood Duck - 3
Mallard - 2
Great Blue Heron - 2 
Black-crowned Night Heron - 1
Black Vulture - 1
Turkey Vulture - 3
Osprey - 2
Bald Eagle - 1 (Primary target species)
Cooper's Hawk - 1
Red-shouldered Hawk - 2 (Secondary target species)
Mourning Dove - 6
Yellow-billed Cuckoo - 2 (target species??)
Ruby-throated Hummingbird - 2
Red-bellied Woodpecker - 4
Downy Woodpecker - 1
Northern Flicker - 2
Pileated Woodpecker - 1 (Secondary target species)
Eastern Wood-Pewee - 2
Acadian Flycatcher - 20 (target species??)
Eastern Phoebe - 1
White-eyed Vireo - 8 (Secondary target species)
Yellow-throated Vireo - 3 (Secondary target species)
Red-eyed Vireo - 22 (target species??)
Blue Jay - 2
American Crow - 2
Tree Swallow - 2
Barn Swallow - 2
Carolina Chickadee - 2
Tufted Titmouse - 11
White-breasted Nuthatch - 1
Carolina Wren - 4
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher - 11
Eastern Bluebird - 4
Wood Thrush - 12 (Primary target species)
Northern Mockingbird - 3
Brown Thrasher - 2 (Secondary target species)
Cedar Waxwing - 2
Northern Parula - 9 (Secondary target species)
Prothonotary Warbler - 7 (Primary target species)
Worm-eating Warbler - 1 (Primary target species)
Ovenbird - 15 (target species??)
Louisiana Waterthrush - 2 (Primary target species)
Kentucky Warbler - 3 (Primary target species)
Common Yellowthroat - 9
Hooded Warbler - 10 (Secondary target species)
Yellow-breasted Chat - 6 (Secondary target species)
Scarlet Tanager - 6 (target species??)
Eastern Towhee - 1 (Secondary target species)
Chipping Sparrow - 1
Northern Cardinal - 7
Indigo Bunting - 8
Red-winged Blackbird - 3
Brown-headed Cowbird - 2
Baltimore Oriole - 2
House Finch - 4
American Goldfinch - 2
House Sparrow - 1
SPECIES: 58
TOTAL BIRDS: 259

MAMMALS
Gray Squirrel - 2
Woodchunk - 1

REPTILES
Eastern Painted Turtle - 8
Red-bellied Turtle - 2

AMPHIBIANS
American Toad - 2

BUTTERFLIES
Eastern Tiger Swallowtail - 2
Cabbage White - 8
Clouded Sulphur - 2
American Lady - 1

DRAGONFLIES
Common Green Darner - 4
Twelve-spotted Skimmer - 3
Eastern Pondhawk - 11
Common Whitetail - 9

DAMSELFLIES
Bluet sp. - 8


     Kevin Graff
     West Ocean City, MD