Hey everyone,

Yesterday Jared Satchell, Ron Gutberlet, Dan Small, and myself did a
Talbot County big day.  We started at 12am and ended at 8pm.  We ended
up with 134 birds.  Really bad misses include -- Forster's Tern,
Pileated Woodpecker, and Swamp Sparrow.  Total list follows:

Mute Swan -- Oxford, Tilghman Island
American Black Duck -- Tilghman Island (2 birds flew over at dusk)
Mallard -- Pickering Creek, Spring Rd
Bufflehead -- Tilghman Island (3 birds on the bay)
Red-breasted Merganser -- Tilghman Island
Ruddy Duck -- Easton WWTP
Wild Turkey -- Sherwood
Common Loon -- Tilghman Island (1 bird calling at dawn)
Pied-billed Grebe -- Llandaff Rd pond (1 bird)
Double-crested Cormorant -- Tilghman Island
Least Bittern -- King Creek Nature Preserve (1 bird calling)
Great Blue Heron
Great Egret -- Spring Rd
Snowy Egret -- Tilghman Back Creek Park (2 birds feeding with Great
Blue Herons in the marsh)
Cattle Egret -- Farm south of Bozman (16 birds)
Green Heron
Black Vulture
Turkey Vulture
Osprey
Bald Eagle
Northern Harrier -- Pickering Creek (1 bird working the impoundments)
Red-tailed Hawk
Virginia Rail -- Miles Creek (1 bird)
Sora -- Miles Creek (1 bird)
Common Moorhen -- Llandaff Rd Pond (4 birds)
American Coot -- Llandaff Rd Pond (2 birds)
Killdeer
Greater Yellowlegs -- Pickering Creek, Spring Rd
Lesser Yellowlegs -- Pickering Creek, Spring Rd
Solitary Sandpiper -- Pickering Creek, Spring Rd
Willet -- Tilghman Back Creek Park (4 birds), Loews Wharf (1 bird
feeding on grubs on the lawn)
Sanderling -- Tilghman back Creek park (1 bird)
Semipalmated Sandpiper -- Pickering Creek
Least Sandpiper -- Pickering Creek
Dowitcher sp? -- Tilghman Island (6 birds flew over at dusk heading
towards Poplar Island)
Wilson's Snipe -- Pickering Creek (2 birds)
Laughing Gull
Bonaparte's Gull -- Tilghman Island (flock of birds flying down the bay at dawn)
Ring-billed Gull
Herring Gull -- Tilghman Island
Great Black-backed Gull -- Tilghman Island
Caspian Tern -- Tilghman Island (4 birds)
Common Tern -- Tilghman Island (1, possibly 2 birds flying down the bay at dawn)
Least Tern -- Pickering Creek, Oxford
Rock Pigeon -- Rt 50 & Longwoods Rd (1 bird)
Mourning Dove
Yellow-billed Cuckoo -- Kings Creek Nature Preserve (1 bird calling)
Barn Owl -- Tuckahoe River Landing (1 bird)
Eastern Screech Owl -- Barkers Landing Rd
Great Horned Owl -- Seth Demonstration Forest (1 bird hooting at 2:30pm)
Barred Owl -- Pickering Creek
Chuck-wills-widow -- Island Creek Rd
Whip-poor-will -- Windy Hill Rd
Chimney Swift
Ruby-throated Hummingbird
Red-bellied Woodpecker
Downy Woodpecker
Hairy Woodpecker -- Covey's Landing
Northern Flicker -- Sherwood Marsh (1 bird)
Eastern Wood-Pewee -- Tapper's Corner stream crossing
Acadian Flycatcher -- Wye Mills
Eastern Phoebe -- Mill Creek
Great Crested Flycatcher
Eastern Kingbird
White-eyed Vireo
Red-eyed Vireo
Blue Jay
American Crow
Fish Crow
Horned Lark -- Covey's Landing, Windy Hill Rd, Pickering Creek
Purple Martin
Tree Swallow
Northern Rough-winged Swallow -- Easton WWTP (2 birds)
Bank Swallow -- Pickering Creek (1 bird)
Barn Swallow
Carolina Chickadee
Tufted Titmouse
White-breasted Nuthatch
Brown-headed Nuthatch -- Tilghman Island
Carolina Wren
House Wren
Marsh Wren -- King's Creek Nature Preserve
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher -- Pickering Creek (1 bird at 5:45pm)
Eastern Bluebird
Veery -- Easton WWTP (1 bird, night flyover)
Wood Thrush
American Robin
Gray Catbird
Northern Mockingbird
Brown Thrasher
European Starling
Cedar Waxwing -- Wye Mills (2 birds feeding in a Holly Tree)
Northern Parula -- most stops in the northern part of the county
Yellow Warbler -- Tilghman Island (1 bird)
Black-throated Blue Warbler -- Tilghman Island (1 bird)
Myrtle Warbler
Blackburnian Warbler -- Tilghman Island (1 bird)
Yellow-throated Warbler -- Tilghman Island
Pine Warbler
Prairie Warbler -- Seth Demonstration Forest (1 bird singing)
Black-and-white Warbler
American Redstart -- Tilghman Island (1 male), Wye Mills (1 male)
Prothonotary Warbler -- Hillsboro bridge (1 bird)
Worm-eating Warbler -- Seth Demonstration Forest (1 bird)
Ovenbird -- White marsh Rd (1 bird heard at 3:30pm)
Northern Waterthrush -- Mill Creek (1 bird singing)
Louisiana Waterthrush -- Tapper's Corner stream crossing (1 bird),
Dover Rd back side of Easton Landfill (1 bird)
Kentucky Warbler -- Tapper's Corner stream crossing (1 bird singing)
Common Yellowthroat
Yellow-breasted Chat -- Windy Hill
Summer Tanager -- Sanderstown Rd (1 bird)
Scarlet Tanager
Eastern Towhee
Chipping Sparrow
Field Sparrow -- Spring Rd, Pickering Creek
Grasshopper Sparrow -- Covey's Landing
Song Sparrow -- Matthewstown Rd & Kingston Landing Rd (1 bird singing)
White-throated Sparrow -- Mill Creek (2 birds), Pickering Creek (1 bird)
Northern Cardinal
Rose-breasted Grosbeak -- Tilghman Island (1 bird)
Blue Grosbeak -- Pickering Creek and a few other places
Indigo Bunting
Red-winged Blackbird
Eastern Meadowlark -- Morgan's Point Rd, private (1 bird)
Common Grackle
Brown-headed Cowbird
Orchard Oriole
Baltimore Oriole
House Finch
American Goldfinch
House Sparrow

Big thanks to Dan for keeping the list (never a fun job on a Big Day).

Jim Brighton
Easton, MD


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