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Worcester County--Marbled Godwit, Black Tern, etc.

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Mike Walsh

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Mike Walsh

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Sat, 18 Jul 2009 22:16:37 -0400

Spent the whole day birding the coast with Bill Hubick and Tom and Geraldine Feild.  Bill will file an ebird report but the highlightsfollow:

Bayside: Slow with southwest winds. Weak heron flight. Bill had a migrant female Indigo Bunting.
Assateague, Life of the Marsh Trail: Flyover Sandwich Tern
ORV Zone: Wilson's Storm-Petrel; juvenile Ring-billed Gulls (2), many juvenile Least Terns, flyby Piping Plover, Black Skimmer; 50+ Willet, the majority Western.
Castaway's: Marbled Godwit, Sandwich Tern, 11 Piping Plovers, Common Loon
Skimmer Island: Three Black Skimmers, 128 Brown Pelicans, hen Red-breasted Merganers, juvenile Common and Forster's Terns, two downy Herring Gull chicks, juvenile Great Egrets at nest (67 adults counted), juvenile Tricolored Heron being fed by parent.
Scott's Landing: Close scope views of a Saltmarsh Sparrow.
Truitt's Landing: 350+ shorebirds including 5 Western, 5 Pectoral, 280 Least, 3 Semi-Sand, 60 Short-billed Dowitchers, both yellowlegs, Semi-Plover.
Dusk watch on Assategue near Life of the Dunes Trail: southbound Black Tern, two active and vocal Common Nighthawks.

Good birding,

Mike

Mike Walsh
523 Loblolly Ln
Salisbury, MD 21801
410.546.8425