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Big Sit at Turkey Point Results

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Sean McCandless

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Sun, 10 Oct 2010 23:36:48 +0000

Hi all. What a day at Turkey Point. While Kevin and I worked our butts off to see what we saw, I believe we could have had more if we had more people. All in all, it was one of the best days I have had at the point. Despite missing some easy birds. 

Highlights for me were seeing the Black-capped Chickadees. The Black-capped did the classic seee saww song. He sang it several times, then the call note was deep and slow as well. When we spotted the birds they had the classic frosty look, long tail and a jagged black bib. The photos really show it well. If I get time I will post a few. 

I didn't get everything Kevin did, I don't think he got everything I saw and heard either. Here is our combined Big Sit List. Thanks for all of your hard work Kevin. 




10/10/10 - 415am-12pm 
Elk Neck SP--Turkey Point, Turkey Point Rd., North East, Cecil Co., MD 

WEATHER: Sunny, 47-64 degrees, N 4 mph- SW 4 mph 
OBSERVERS: Kevin Graff, Sean McCandless 

Canada Goose - 106 
Wood Duck - 6 
American Black Duck - 4 
Mallard - 4 
Double-crested Cormorant - 49 
Great Blue Heron - 1 
Black Vulture - 2 
Turkey Vulture - 11 
Osprey - 1 
Bald Eagle - 4 
Northern Harrier - 1 
Sharp-shinned Hawk - 67 
Cooper's Hawk - 15 
Red-shouldered Hawk - 15 
Broad-winged Hawk - 2 
Red-tailed Hawk - 11 
American Kestrel - 1 
Merlin - 3 
Peregrine Falcon - 1 
American Woodcock - 1 
Bonaparte's Gull - 1 
Laughing Gull - 12 
Ring-billed Gull - 11 
Herring Gull - 27 
Great Black-backed Gull - 7 
Caspian Tern - 1 
Forster's Tern - 12 
Mourning Dove - 1 (flew over toward SE during rush hour) 
Eastern Screech-Owl - 2 (heard at least 1-2 other on way in) 
Great Horned Owl - 2 
Barred Owl - 1 
Chimney Swift - 7 
Red-bellied Woodpecker - 5 
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker - 9 
Downy Woodpecker - 1 
Hairy Woodpecker - 1 
Northern Flicker - 78 
Pileated Woodpecker - 1 
YELLOW-BELLIED FLYCATCHER - 1 
Eastern Phoebe - 3 
Great Crested Flycatcher - 2 
Blue-headed Vireo - 2 
Blue Jay - 1590 
American Crow - 6 
Fish Crow - 2 
Horned Lark - 1 
N. Rough-winged Swallow - 1 (last bird of the count circle, 1159am) 
Tree Swallow - 8 
Carolina Chickadee - 7 
BLACK-CAPPED CHICKADEE - 2 
Tufted Titmouse - 2 
Red-breasted Nuthatch - 73 
White-breasted Nuthatch - 19 (16 in one area) 
Brown Creeper - 1 
Carolina Wren - 1 
Winter Wren - 1 
Golden-crowned Kinglet - 8 
Ruby-crowned Kinglet - 10 
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher - 2 
Eastern Bluebird - 1 
BICKNELL'S THRUSH - 2 
SWAINSON'S THRUSH - 3 
Hermit Thrush - 4 
Wood Thrush - 1 
American Robin - 274 
Gray Catbird - 1 
European Starling - 8 
Cedar Waxwing - 131 
Tennessee Warbler - 2 
Northern Parula - 4 
Magnolia Warbler - 3 
Cape May Warbler - 1 
Black-throated Blue Warbler - 1 
Yellow-rumped Warbler - 380 
Black-throated Green Warbler - 5 
Blackburnian Warbler - 1 
Pine Warbler - 1 
Palm Warbler - 11 (4 yellow, 7 western) 
Bay-breasted Warbler - 2 
Blackpoll Warbler - 4 
Common Yellowthroat - 1 
Canada Warbler - 1 
Eastern Towhee - 2 
Chipping Sparrow - 5 
Field Sparrow - 4 
Song Sparrow - 4 
Swamp Sparrow - 2 
White-throated Sparrow - 4 
"Slate-colored" Junco - 1 
Northern Cardinal - 3 
Rose-breasted Grosbeak - 2 
Indigo Bunting - 1 
Dickcissel - 3 
Bobolink - 1 
Red-winged Blackbird - 16 
Common Grackle - 38 
Purple Finch - 22 
House Finch - 2 
American Goldfinch - 45 
SPECIES: 99 
INDIVIDUALS: 3223 


outside count circle 

Northern Mockingbird - 1 (on way out) 
Blue Grosbeak - 1 (near hawkwatch) 


    Kevin & Sean