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Pickering Creek Audubon Sanctuary -- 5/2/11

From:

Jim Brighton

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Jim Brighton

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Tue, 3 May 2011 22:11:17 -0400

Hey everyone,

I spent a couple hours walking around Pickering Creek yesterday
evening.  Complete ebird list below.

Pickering Creek Audubon Center, Talbot, US-MD
May 2, 2011 6:00 PM - 7:50 PM
Protocol: Traveling
2.0 mile(s)
Comments:     Non avian: Green Frog, Southern Leopard Frog, Green Tree
Frog, Fowler's Toad, Bull Frog, Northern Cricket Frog, Snapping
Turtle, Striped Skunk, Gray Squirrel, White-tailed Deer, Eastern
Cottontail, Eastern Tailed-blue, Pearl Crescent.
54 species

Canada Goose  6
Wood Duck  8
American Black Duck  2
Mallard  12
Green-winged Teal (American)  2
Wild Turkey  1
Great Blue Heron  2
Turkey Vulture  1
Bald Eagle  1     adult
Sora  1     called spontaneously
Solitary Sandpiper  16     Although only 5 species of shorebird were
observed, there were a ton of shorebirds present.  I walked around
most of the wetlands expanse and kept careful count.  My personal high
count.
Greater Yellowlegs  19
Lesser Yellowlegs  26
Least Sandpiper  42
Wilson's Snipe  6     They haven't all left yet.
Laughing Gull  163     all fly overs
Least Tern  11
Forster's Tern  2
Mourning Dove  2
Chimney Swift  2
Ruby-throated Hummingbird  1
Red-bellied Woodpecker  2
Downy Woodpecker  1
Pileated Woodpecker  1
Great Crested Flycatcher  1
Blue Jay  1
American Crow  4
Tree Swallow  16
Bank Swallow  1
Barn Swallow  1
Tufted Titmouse  1
Carolina Wren  1
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher  5
Eastern Bluebird  3
American Robin  2
Northern Mockingbird  2
Brown Thrasher  2
Yellow-rumped Warbler (Myrtle)  1
Pine Warbler  4
Common Yellowthroat  8
Chipping Sparrow  10
Field Sparrow  1
Grasshopper Sparrow  9
Swamp Sparrow  2
White-throated Sparrow  1
Summer Tanager  1
Scarlet Tanager  4
Northern Cardinal  5
Blue Grosbeak  4     2 male/2 female
Indigo Bunting  4
Red-winged Blackbird  21
Common Grackle  1
Brown-headed Cowbird  2
American Goldfinch  1

Jim Brighton
Easton, MD


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