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Queen Anne's/Talbot/Dorchester Counties, 01/11/09

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Kevin Graff

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Sun, 11 Jan 2009 19:19:17 -0800

Hi all,



01/11/09 - 650am-715am
Route 50, Grasonville, Queen Anne's Co., MD

WEATHER: MC, 37 degrees, NNW 6 mph
OBSERVERS: Kevin G., Nico S.

Canada Goose - 36
Mute Swan - 8
Tundra Swan - 2
American Black Duck - 20
Mallard - 2
Bufflehead - 2
Double-crested Cormorant - 1
Great Blue Heron - 1
Turkey Vulture - 2
Bald Eagle - 1 (returned trip)
Sharp-shinned Hawk - 1
Ring-billed Gull - 5
Herring Gull - 5
Great Black-backed Gull - 7
Rock Pigeon - 10
Mourning Dove - 2
American Crow - 2
crow sp. - 7
American Robin - 1
European Starling - 18
Red-winged Blackbird - 4
House Sparrow - 1
SPECIES: 21
TOTAL BIRDS: 138

01/11/09 - 715am-745am
Route 50, Easton, Talbot Co., MD

WEATHER: MC, 37 degrees, NNW 8 mph
OBSERVERS: Kevin G., Nico S.

Canada Goose - 1200 (scattered all over fields, no time to count)
Bufflehead - 1 (near bridge)
Great Blue Heron - 1
Black Vulture - 10 (returned trip)
Turkey Vulture - 16 (returned trip)
Bald Eagle - 2
Red-tailed Hawk - 1
American Kestrel - 1
Ring-billed Gull - 5
Great Black-backed Gull - 2
Rock Pigeon - 5
Mourning Dove - 1
Northern Flicker - 1
Blue Jay - 1
American Crow - 2
crow sp. - 10
Eastern Bluebird - 1
American Robin - 14
Northern Mockingbird - 1
European Starling - 55
Red-winged Blackbird - 25
American Goldfinch - 1
SPECIES: 21
TOTAL BIRDS: 1356

01/11/09 - 750am-10am
Cambridge Municipal Yacht Basin, High St., Cambridge, Dorchester Co., MD

WEATHER: MC, 37-39 degrees, NNW 9 mph- NNW 16 mph, Gust to 24 mph
OBSERVERS: 10

Snow Goose - 124 (flyby south)
Canada Goose - 9
Tundra Swan - 7
EURASIAN WIGEON - 1 (drake)
American Wigeon - 12
American Black Duck - 2
Mallard - 28
Canvasback - 570
Redhead - 1
Ring-necked Duck - 1 (hen)
TUFTED DUCK - 1 (drake, county bird, last seen in MD February 2000)
Greater Scaup - 14
Lesser Scaup - 361
Surf Scoter - 59
Long-tailed Duck - 22
Bufflehead - 55
Common Goldeneye - 42
BARROW'S GOLDENEYE - 1 (hen, county bird, last seen at NAS March 1996)
Ruddy Duck - 2
Common Loon - 1
Turkey Vulture - 2
Bald Eagle - 1
Sharp-shinned Hawk - 1
Ring-billed Gull - 72
Herring Gull - 8
Great Black-backed Gull - 13
Rock Pigeon - 8
Mourning Dove - 2
Blue Jay - 2
American Crow - 1
American Robin - 2
Northern Mockingbird - 1
European Starling - 11
"Slate-colored" Junco - 2
House Sparrow - 1
SPECIES: 35
TOTAL BIRDS: 1440


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