Hi all,



   Thanks to Leslie Starr and John Dennehy for text message about good birds on lower eastern shore while phone service was out of range at Irish Grove the night before. But not enough time to do many stops as I have stuffs going on at home later that day. 


11/03/08 - 945am-1215pm
Assateague Island NS "Bayside Campground Loop B/C" Bayside Dr., Berlin, Worcester Co., MD

WEATHER: MC, 65-66 degrees, NE 9 mph- ENE 10 mph

Atlantic Brant - 8
American Black Duck - 4 
Surf Scoter - 12       
Bufflehead - 3
Red-breasted Merganser - 2
Common Loon - 4               
Double-crested Cormorant - 42 (2 flocks headed SE)
Great Blue Heron - 3
Turkey Vulture - 2
Merlin - 1
Black-bellied Plover - 2
Dunlin - 6
Laughing Gull - 3
Ring-billed Gull - 1
Herring Gull - 6
Great Black-backed Gull - 3
Royal Tern - 1
Downy Woodpecker - 1
Northern Flicker - 8 
Blue Jay - 1
Tree Swallow - 8
Red-breasted Nuthatch - 1
Carolina Wren - 1
Golden-crowned Kinglet - 1
Ruby-crowned Kinglet - 2
American Robin - 88
Northern Mockingbird - 2
Brown Thrasher - 1
European Starling - 1
Cedar Waxwing - 5
Yellow-rumped Warbler - 75
Palm Warbler - 1 (western)
Eastern Towhee - 2
Chipping Sparrow  - 10
Clay-colored Sparrow - 1
Field Sparrow - 2
Vesper Sparrow - 1 (flushed at drier grassy field)
Savannah Sparrow - 1
Song Sparrow - 24              
Swamp Sparrow - 4
White-throated Sparrow - 30
"Slate-colored" Junco - 10
Northern Cardinal - 2
Red-winged Blackbird - 3
Purple Finch - 1
SPECIES: 45
TOTAL BIRDS: 390

MAMMALS
Wild Ponies - 2
Sika Deer - 1

11/03/08 - 115pm-145pm
Howard Sand & Gravel Co., Rt 50., Mardela Springs, Wicomico Co., MD

WEATHER: MC/PC, 65-64 degrees, ESE 7 mph- SE 8 mph

Canada Goose - 16
Mute Swan - 1
Mallard - 4
Ruddy Duck - 2
Great Blue Heron - 2
Turkey Vulture - 4
Bald Eagle - 1
Northern Harrier - 1
Red-tailed Hawk - 1
American Kestrel - 1
Killdeer - 1
Laughing Gull - 2
Ring-billed Gull - 5
Mourning Dove - 2
Downy Woodpecker - 1
Northern Flicker - 1
American Crow - 1
Tree Swallow - 2
Tufted Titmouse - 1
Brown Creeper - 1
European Starling - 5
American Pipit - 2
Yellow-rumped Warbler - 19
Chipping Sparrow - 1
Song Sparrow - 4
White-throated Sparrow - 7
"Slate-colored" Junco - 2
Northern Cardinal - 1
SPECIES: 28
TOTAL BIRDS: 91


Terrapin Nature Area was slow, few yellow-rumped, golden-crowned kinglets.


    Kevin Graff
    Jarrettsville, MD & West O.C., MD