Here are the numbers from our survey of the OSV zone on Wednesday. Of the 4327 birds counted, almost half were Sanderlings.

Leslie Starr, Joe Turner, Ron Gutberlet
Baltimore & Salisbury

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> Date: August 18, 2011 4:49:43 PM EDT
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> Subject: eBird Report - Assateague I. NS--OSV Zone, Aug 17, 2011
> 
> Assateague I. NS--OSV Zone, Worcester, US-MD
> Aug 17, 2011 4:15 PM - 7:50 PM
> Protocol: Traveling
> 11.5 mile(s)
> 26 species
> 
> Double-crested Cormorant  2
> Brown Pelican  64     counted 24 individuals in small groups flying south, 64 in two large groups on beach further south; uncertain how many total so reporting total of two large groups
> Black-bellied Plover  60
> Semipalmated Plover  68
> Piping Plover  1
> Killdeer  1
> American Oystercatcher  13
> Willet (Eastern)  12
> Willet (Western)  107
> Marbled Godwit  1     photos: www.flickr.com/photos/41142725@N07/
> Ruddy Turnstone  73
> Sanderling  1682
> Semipalmated Sandpiper  95
> Least Sandpiper  3
> Wilson's Phalarope  1     photo: www.flickr.com/photos/41142725@N07/
> Laughing Gull  40
> Ring-billed Gull  49
> Herring Gull  729     counted carefully; mostly adults
> Lesser Black-backed Gull  158     counted carefully; mostly immatures
> Great Black-backed Gull  199
> Least Tern  5
> Caspian Tern  1
> Common Tern  47
> Forster's Tern  14
> Royal Tern  1
> Sandwich Tern  1
> 
> This report was generated automatically by eBird v2 (http://ebird.org)


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