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Terrapin Park, Kent Island, on New Year's morning

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Mark Schilling

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Mark Schilling

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Sat, 1 Jan 2011 17:02:06 -0500

First 'flushed' a woodcock while driving on a neighborhood road in the dark this am...
 
Then a few hours at at Terrapin Nature Park...

Mark Schilling 
Kent Island


Location:     Terrapin Nature Park
Observation date:     1/1/11
Number of species:     45

Snow Goose     3     One 'grey' juvenile; one adult blue goose; one adult 'white' goose; mixed among Canada geese in bay waters against shore.
Canada Goose     500     Two were in a V formation of several Tundra Swans
Tundra Swan     11
Mallard     42
Canvasback     16
Greater Scaup     25
Lesser Scaup     50
Greater/Lesser Scaup     1400     One large raft, a few smaller rafts a bit offshore..
Long-tailed Duck     2
Bufflehead     45
Common Goldeneye     48
Double-crested Cormorant     2
Great Blue Heron     1
Turkey Vulture     3
Bald Eagle     1
Red-shouldered Hawk     1
Killdeer     1
Ring-billed Gull     125
Herring Gull     5
Great Black-backed Gull     23
gull sp.     50
Rock Pigeon     6
Red-bellied Woodpecker     2
Downy Woodpecker     2
Hairy Woodpecker     1
Northern Flicker (Yellow-shafted)     3
Blue Jay     2
American Crow     3
crow sp.     1
Carolina Chickadee     4
Tufted Titmouse     3
White-breasted Nuthatch     2
Carolina Wren     6
Winter Wren     3
Golden-crowned Kinglet     2
Gray Catbird     1     Heard clear 'cat' call nearby at dawn; not seen.
Northern Mockingbird     2
European Starling     11
Yellow-rumped Warbler (Myrtle)     27
Eastern Towhee     1
Song Sparrow     9
Swamp Sparrow     2
White-throated Sparrow     29
Dark-eyed Junco (Slate-colored)     11
Northern Cardinal     12
Red-winged Blackbird     145
American Goldfinch     6
House Sparrow     4

This report was generated automatically by eBird v2(http://ebird.org)