Hi all,



   I joined John Dennehy and Brad Cernohorksy yesterday searched for their county and lifebirds in lower eastern shore.  We start at bayside/point for dawn flight and we got a few. Nice one was a early yellow race Palm Warbler. Onto to do a seawatch but unfavorable wind out of ENE not a ideal one but we enjoy seeing 4 Wilsons Storm Petrel, a gannet and an adult Gull-billed Tern headed N.  Not much interesting at causeway, Truitts Landing was slow, water too high. Things got better at Salisbury Airport with 3 Upland Sandpipers and a Grasshopper Sparrow. We also checked out Fooks Rd which is a really nice place, we're surprised to see a early Magnolia Warbler with a small pocket of bird activity.   

  Earlier this Thursday Aug 12th, Stan Arnold and I were going to do OSV Zone and were cut short due to approaching storms. While we were on the beach, we had 14 Wilson's Storm Petrel, 1 gannet, 1 eastern and 12 western Willet, 6 Lesser Black-backed Gull including 1 adult, 2 2nd summer and 3 3rd summer, 6 terns including 4 Least, 1 Black, 58 Common, 3 Forsters, 16 Royal and 2 Sandwich. At the causeway, we had a nice look at a Northern Waterthrush.  At the Truitts Landing we got caught in a heavy storms and unable to get out after seeing thousands of shorebirds and many ducks through car windows. At Hurlock, all 6 swallow species. At Horseehad, only 4 dozens shorebirds and white pelican still around and miss the phalarope Dan Small had earlier.


08/14/10 - 6am-735am
Assateague Island NS--Bayside/Point, Bayside Dr., Berlin, Worcester Co., MD

WEATHER: PC, 66-73 degrees, ENE 6 mph- NE 9 mph

Canada Goose - 2
Blue-winged Teal - 1 (headed S)
Brown Pelican - 3
Double-crested Cormorant - 9
Great Egret - 6
Snowy Egret - 7
Little Blue Heron - 4
Tricolored Heron - 33
Cattle Egret - 7
Green Heron - 1
Black-crowned Night Heron - 3
Glossy Ibis - 3
Osprey - 1
Black-bellied Plover - 3
Semipalmated Plover - 1
Spotted Sandpiper - 1
Ruddy Turnstone - 1
Semipalmated Sandpiper - 2
Short-billed Dowitcher - 2 (atlantic)
Laughing Gull - 74
Herring Gull - 17
Great Black-backed Gull - 4
Common Tern - 21
Forster's Tern - 1
Royal Tern - 3
Mourning Dove - 1
Ruby-throated Hummingbird - 1
Belted Kingfisher - 2
Northern Flicker - 1
Great Crested Flycatcher - 1
Eastern Kingbird - 1
White-eyed Vireo - 3
Red-eyed Vireo - 1
Blue Jay - 1
Fish Crow - 26
Purple Martin - 1
Tree Swallow - 4
Barn Swallow - 18
Carolina Wren - 1
House Wren - 1
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher - 1
American Robin - 1
Gray Catbird - 14
Brown Thrasher - 9
European Starling - 15
Northern Parula - 1
Yellow Warbler - 1
PALM WARBLER - 1 (yellow) *early*
American Redstart - 2
Prothonotary Warbler - 1
Common Yellowthroat - 3
Eastern Towhee - 1
Northern Cardinal - 8
Blue Grosbeak - 1
Bobolink - 1 (joined blackbirds, made it across the bay)
Red-winged Blackbird - 2 (working their way across the bay, returned back)
Boat-tailed Grackle - 9
Orchard Oriole - 16
Baltimore Oriole - 2
American Goldfinch - 3
SPECIES: 60
INDIVIDUALS: 365

08/14/10 - 740am-845am
Assateague Island NS--South Ocean Beach, Bayberry Dr., Berlin, Worcester Co., MD

WEATHER: MC, 73 degrees, ENE 6 mph- ENE 9 mph

Wilson's Storm Petrel - 4
Northern Gannet - 1
Brown Pelican - 11
Double-crested Cormorant - 1
Osprey - 1
Black-bellied Plover - 1
Willet - 18 (western, all close-by by down the beach by the surf)
Ruddy Turnstone - 1
Sanderling - 37
Laughing Gull - 32
Ring-billed Gull - 3
Herring Gull - 11
Great Black-backed Gull - 9
Least Tern - 1
GULL-BILLED TERN - 1 (adult headed N)
Common Tern - 48
Forster's Tern - 1
Barn Swallow - 17
Red-winged Blackbird - 1
Brown-headed Cowbird - 1
SPECIES: 20
INDIVIDUALS: 200

08/14/10 - 855am-905am
Assateague Island NS--Causeway, Stephen Decatur Hwy, Berlin, Worcester CO., MD

WEATHER: MC/PC, 73-74 degrees, N 8 mph

Double-crested Cormorant - 1
Great Blue Heron - 1
Great Egret - 29
Snowy Egret - 49
Little Blue Heron - 1
Glossy Ibis - 8
Osprey - 1
Virginia Rail - 1 (nearly hit by car as it flew across road)
Semipalmated Plover - 1
Greater Yellowlegs - 1
Willet - 1 (western)
Semipalmated Sandpiper - 4
Laughing Gull - 6
Herring Gull - 2
Caspian Tern - 2
Mourning Dove - 1
Carolina Chickadee - 1
Carolina Wren - 1
American Robin - 1
European Starling - 4
Red-winged Blackbird - 1
Common Grackle - 1
Boat-tailed Grackle - 1
Brown-headed Cowbird - 2
SPECIES: 24
INDIVIDUALS: 121

08/14/10 - 940am-1015am
Truitts Landing Rd., Girdletree, Worcester Co., MD

WEATHER: PC, 75-77 degrees, ENE 9 mph
 
Snowy Egret - 1
Black Vulture - 4
Turkey Vulture - 2
Osprey - 1
Bald Eagle - 1
Spotted Sandpiper - 1
Lesser Yellowlegs - 4
Semipalmated Sandpiper - 1
Laughing Gull - 27
Forster's Tern - 2
Mourning Dove - 1
Yellow-billed Cuckoo - 1
Downy Woodpecker - 1
Great Crested Flycatcher - 1
White-eyed Vireo - 1
Red-eyed Vireo - 1
Purple Martin - 1
Tree Swallow - 1
Barn Swallow - 2
Tufted Titmouse - 1
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher - 1
Eastern Bluebird - 2
Gray Catbird - 1
Chipping Sparrow - 1
Field Sparrow - 1
Saltmarsh Sparrow - 1
Seaside Sparrow - 1
Red-winged Blackbird - 1
American Goldfinch - 2
SPECIES: 29
INDIVIDUALS: 66

08/14/10 - 1055am-1135am
EA Vaughn WMA--North, Taylors Landing Rd., Girdletree, Worcester Co., MD

WEATHER: Fair, 78 degrees, E 9 mph

Canada Goose - 28
Great Egret - 2
Snowy Egret - 3
Glossy Ibis - 3
Turkey Vulture - 2
Bald Eagle - 1
Cooper's Hawk - 1
Laughing Gull - 11
Mourning Dove - 2
Ruby-throated Hummingbird - 1
Eastern Wood-Pewee - 1
White-eyed Vireo - 1
American Crow - 1
Purple Martin - 2
Barn Swallow - 5
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher - 1
American Robin - 2
European Starling - 1
Chipping Sparrow - 1
Field Sparrow - 1
Northern Cardinal - 1
Blue Grosbeak - 4
Indigo Bunting - 1
Red-winged Blackbird - 3
Orchard Oriole - 1
American Goldfinch - 8
SPECIES: 26
INDIVIDUALS: 88

08/14/10 - 1250pm-110pm
Salisbury-O.C. Wicomico Regional Airport, Airport Rd., Salisbury, Wicomico Co., MD

WEATHER: Sunny, 80 degrees, E 8 mph

Canada Goose - 10
Turkey Vulture - 1
UPLAND SANDPIPER - 3
Rock Pigeon - 4
Mourning Dove - 1
Chimney Swift - 1
Ruby-throated Hummingbird - 1
Eastern Kingbird - 1
Barn Swallow - 5
Northern Mockingbird - 1
European Starling - 1
Grasshopper Sparrow - 1
House Sparrow - 1 
SPECIES: 13
INDIVIDUALS: 31

08/14/10 - 110pm-150pm
Nassawango Creek Preserve--Fooks Rd., Salisbury, Wicomico Co., MD

WEATHER: Fair, 80-81 degrees, ESE 8 mph-ESE 9 mph

Black Vulture - 2
Turkey Vulture - 2
Red-tailed Hawk - 1
Laughing Gull - 1
Mourning Dove - 1
Ruby-throated Hummingbird - 3
Downy Woodpecker - 1
Northern Flicker - 1
Acadian Flycatcher - 1
Great Crested Flycatcher - 1
Eastern Kingbird - 1
Red-eyed Vireo - 2
Purple Martin - 2
Barn Swallow - 2
Carolina Chickadee - 4
Tufted Titmouse - 8
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher - 1
American Robin - 1
Gray Catbird - 1
European Starling - 1
MAGNOLIA WARBLER - 1  *early*
Yellow-throated Warbler - 1
Pine Warbler - 1
Ovenbird - 1
Common Yellowthroat - 1
Eastern Towhee - 1
Northern Cardinal - 2 
American Goldfinch - 1
SPECIES: 28
INDIVIDUALS: 46

08/14/10 - 3pm-445pm
Blackwater NWR--Wildlife Drive, Key Wallace Dr., Cambridge, Dorchester Co., MD

WEATHER: MC, 83-81 degrees, SSE 9 mph- SE 7 mph 

American White Pelican - 1
Double-crested Cormorant - 5
Great Blue Heron - 7
Great Egret - 6
Black Vulture - 1
Turkey Vulture - 13
Osprey - 10
Bald Eagle - 5
Cooper's Hawk - 1
Killdeer - 10
Spotted Sandpiper - 2
Solitary Sandpiper - 1
Greater Yellowlegs - 3
Lesser Yellowlegs - 1
Least Sandpiper - 1
Laughing Gull - 72
Ring-billed Gull - 2
Herring Gull - 1
COMMON TERN - 1 
Forster's Tern - 29
Caspian Tern - 2
Rock Pigeon - 4
Mourning Dove - 2
Chimney Swift - 1
Ruby-throated Hummingbird - 1
Belted Kingfisher - 1
Red-headed Woodpecker - 2
Downy Woodpecker - 1
Hairy Woodpecker - 1
Eastern Wood-Pewee - 2
Eastern Kingbird - 2
American Crow - 1
Fish Crow - 2
Purple Martin - 1
Tree Swallow - 2
Barn Swallow - 11
Carolina Chickadee - 1
Brown-headed Nuthatch - 3
Carolina Wren - 2
Eastern Bluebird - 5
American Robin - 1
Northern Mockingbird - 1
European Starling - 7
Cedar Waxwing - 1
Pine Warbler - 2
Northern Cardinal - 2
Blue Grosbeak - 1
Red-winged Blackbird - 9
Common Grackle - 1
American Goldfinch - 4
SPECIES: 50
INDIVIDUALS: 248


    Kevin Graff
    Jarrettsville, MD