Hi all,
I birded Worcester County on Saturday and Sunday and had some nice
surprises. I started at dawn at Truitts Landing (full list below), stopping
along the entrance to enjoy the vocal CHUCK-WILLS-WIDOWS. There was already
quite an assemblage of waders as I arrived at the south impoundment with
more birds streaming in, at one point an impressive group had gathered on
the near shore until they noticed me and flew to the far shore again. Some
highlights were the building numbers of shorebirds including a large group
of SHORT-BILLED DOWITCHERs and 2 WESTERN SANDPIPERs. The standouts of the
larger waders were the WHITE-FACED IBIS (first summer) and WHITE IBIS
(juvenile) that Matt Hafner posted about on Saturday (thanks Matt!). I ran
into Karen and Bill Harris, Danny Poet, Janet Shields, and Jeff Shenot here
too. After Truitts, I headed to North Vaughn and immediately heard a
DICKCISSEL singing upon stepping out of the car, the bird was quickly
located among the sunflower crop here. I continued picking my way to
Georges Island before joining up with Jim Stasz, Mike Ostrowski and Rob
Ostrowski in the afternoon. A seawatch from Assateague for the last hour
and a half of daylight produced a few WILSON'S STORM PETRELS flying up and
down the shore and a GREAT SHEARWATER that unfortunately stayed out of sight
in the wave troughs most of the time. Sunday was quite good as well, Jim
Stasz, Rob and Mike Ostrowski, Mike Walsh and I birded Truitt's and North
Vaughn locating most of the birds from Saturday. While at Vaughn, Jim, Mike
W and I watched as the WHITE-FACED IBIS dropped in with a flock of GLOSSY
IBISES, we were able to study the bird close up for a few minutes before a
BALD EAGLE flushed the group.
Photos can be seen at:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/mikeycerw/
Truitts Landing , Worcester, US-MD
Jul 16, 2011 5:15 AM - 8:50 AM
Protocol: Traveling
0.6 mile(s)
Comments: with Karen and Bill Harris, Danny Poet, Janet Shields, and
Jeff Shenot
62 species
Canada Goose 5
American Black Duck 12
Mallard 1
Brown Pelican 14
Least Bittern 1 calling bird
Great Egret 13
Snowy Egret 385
Little Blue Heron 11
Tricolored Heron 3
Green Heron 3
White Ibis 1 Juvenile bird, chocolate brown above white belly; reddish
bill was the easiest part of the bird to see among the hundreds of egrets
and ibises, documentation quality photos
Glossy Ibis 43
White-faced Ibis 1 First year bird, red eye and pinkish facial skin
clearly seen, also the bronze yellow tertials could be seen well, bird was
relocated on 17 July 2011 at Truitts and Vaughn N. where much better photos
were obtained.
Clapper Rail 2
King Rail 2
Virginia Rail 5
Semipalmated Plover 4
Killdeer 3
Spotted Sandpiper 7
Solitary Sandpiper 2
Willet (Eastern) 2
Lesser Yellowlegs 15
Semipalmated Sandpiper 5
Western Sandpiper 2
Least Sandpiper 62
Short-billed Dowitcher 125
Laughing Gull 390
Herring Gull 1
Forster's Tern 92 Impressive concentration
Mourning Dove 4
Chuck-will's-widow 3
Downy Woodpecker 1
Pileated Woodpecker 2
Eastern Wood-Pewee 2
Great Crested Flycatcher 2
Eastern Kingbird 2
American Crow 2
Fish Crow 3
Purple Martin 4
Tree Swallow 1
Barn Swallow 5
Carolina Chickadee 2
Brown-headed Nuthatch 4
Carolina Wren 3
House Wren 4
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher 2
Eastern Bluebird 1
European Starling 2
Cedar Waxwing 1
Pine Warbler 2
Common Yellowthroat 2
Chipping Sparrow 2 Singing in north fields before marsh
Seaside Sparrow 4
Summer Tanager 1
Northern Cardinal 6
Blue Grosbeak 3
Indigo Bunting 3
Red-winged Blackbird 17
Eastern Meadowlark 1
Common Grackle 15
Brown-headed Cowbird 1
American Goldfinch 2
This report was generated automatically by eBird v2 (http://ebird.org)
Good Birding!
Mikey Lutmerding
http://www.flickr.com/photos/mikeycerw/
Croom, MD
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