Hi all,
I'm going through photos from today and after speaking with Jim Stasz,
I'm going to retract my Vesper Sparrow and it is highly likely that
I'll be making a trade: 2 Saltmarsh Sparrows for the 2 Nelson's. I
will post photos of the birds on my flickr site later this evening.
-Dan
On Sun, May 15, 2011 at 12:11 PM, Dan Haas <> wrote:
> I met Bill Schreitz both yesterday and this morning out at SPSP. Bill
> was doing his May Count and I was happy to help before I had to go
> sing at a wedding.
>
> The highlights:
>
> 1 RUDDY TURNSTONE (Sat)
> 4 Sanderling (One bird on Sat, 4 today)
> 1 LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULL (Sat)
> 45+ Caspian Tern (both days, numbers increased Sunday)
> 1 Common Tern (Sat)
> 1 Warbling Vireo (Singing at the entrance on Sat, nearly attacking me
> at the phrag pond at the Northern tip of the park on Sun)
> 1 BLACK-BELLIED PLOVER (East Beach on Sun)
> 1 Semipalmated Plover (Sun)
> 6 Semipalmated Sandpiper (both days)
> 7 Least Sandpiper (both days)
> 2 SHORT-BILLED DOWITCHER (both days for Bill, Sunday for me)
> 1 Wilson's Snipe (Sun)
> 5 Laughing Gull
> 1 Eastern Wood-Pewee (Sun)
> 1 VESPER SPARROW (Sun at the North parking lot w/ two Savannahs)
> 2 NELSON'S SPARROW (Sun at the rock wall / phrag pond)
> 1 Summer Tanager (Seen, not singing)
> 1 Scarlet Tanager (Seen, singing)
> 25 Indigo Bunting (An absolute underestimate... as these birds were
> all over the skies apparently migrating throughout the morning)
> 4 Bobolinks (both days)
>
> Other notables, a Cliff Swallow at the turf farms on Whitehall Road
> (Sat) and a singing Wilson's Warbler in the yard a few minutes ago.
>
> Good Birding,
>
> Dan Haas
> West Annapolis, MD
> nervousbirdsatgmail.com
>
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