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Eastern Shore Highlights

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Mikey Lutmerding

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Mikey Lutmerding

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Mon, 26 Sep 2011 20:55:19 -0400

Hi all,

I birded on the Eastern Shore on Sunday (25 September).  I Started at
Assateague where upon arriving at dawn, there appeared to have been a
fallout of GRAY CATBIRDs as evidenced by a puddle near one of the entrance
roads into the campground that was surrounded by 16 of them!  By the time I
had finished birding Bayside I had tallied 116.  Bayside was quite
productive as far as diversity though numbers of birds was a bit low.
Bayside Campground included some nice surprises including a juvenile LARK
SPARROW and a CLAY-COLORED SPARROW that were hanging out together near the
septic dump on the west end.  They would flush together and return to the
same bare spot on the ground, when I left the area around 1130, they were
still there.  I also lucked into a juvenile CONNECTICUT WARBLER that briefly
popped up in response to pishing, this bird was a couple hundred yards from
the western most entrance to the campground. I checked a few more spots
before heading to the north end of the island.  I walked shell road without
any surprises, the best bird here being a juvenile dark morph PARASITIC
JAEGER that was harrasing a few gulls during a seawatch at the end of the
road.  Skimmer Island had a good number of BLACK SKIMMERs, but it appeared
that most all of the other birds were off foraging. I headed west from there
checking turf farms for grasspipers without success. Hurlock held an
impressive 82 BLUE-WINGED TEAL, and some funky looking male NORTHERN
PINTAILs that were molting out of eclipse plumage.   All and all a great day
to be out!!  Some complete lists are below-

Photos of the Lark and Clay-colored Sparrow can be seen at:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/mikeycerw/


Assateague I. NS--Bayside, Worcester, US-MD
Sep 25, 2011 6:30 AM - 9:00 AM
Protocol: Traveling
0.25 mile(s)
67 species

Brown Pelican  1
Great Blue Heron  2
Great Egret  10
Snowy Egret  65
Little Blue Heron  12
Tricolored Heron  18
Cattle Egret  6
Osprey  1
Black-bellied Plover  1
Semipalmated Plover  3
Killdeer  1
American Oystercatcher  2
Spotted Sandpiper  1
Ruddy Turnstone  3
Semipalmated Sandpiper  2
Least Sandpiper  10
Dunlin  2
Laughing Gull  55
Ring-billed Gull  2
Herring Gull  6
Great Black-backed Gull  3
Caspian Tern  5
Common Tern  2
Forster's Tern  3
Royal Tern  2
Yellow-billed Cuckoo  2
Belted Kingfisher  1
Downy Woodpecker  1
Northern Flicker (Yellow-shafted)  2
White-eyed Vireo  1
Red-eyed Vireo  3
Fish Crow  6
Tree Swallow  10
Carolina Chickadee  3
Carolina Wren  4
House Wren  3
Swainson's Thrush  2
American Robin  5
Gray Catbird  32
Brown Thrasher  8
European Starling  30
Cedar Waxwing  11
Black-and-white Warbler  2
Nashville Warbler  3
Common Yellowthroat  4
American Redstart  6
Cape May Warbler  1
Northern Parula  7
Magnolia Warbler  1
Yellow Warbler  1
Blackpoll Warbler  2
Black-throated Blue Warbler  2
Yellow-rumped Warbler (Myrtle)  1
Wilson's Warbler  1
Yellow-breasted Chat  1
Eastern Towhee  1
Savannah Sparrow  2
Song Sparrow  4
Northern Cardinal  9
Rose-breasted Grosbeak  1
Blue Grosbeak  2
Indigo Bunting  5
Bobolink  5
Red-winged Blackbird  13
Boat-tailed Grackle  5
Baltimore Oriole  2
American Goldfinch  1

Assateague I. NS--Bayside Campground, Worcester, US-MD
Sep 25, 2011 8:45 AM - 10:40 AM
Protocol: Traveling
1.4 mile(s)
78 species (+1 other taxa)

Canada Goose  5
American Black Duck  3
Blue-winged Teal  4
Northern Pintail  3
Green-winged Teal  12
Double-crested Cormorant  32
Great Blue Heron  1
Great Egret  2
Snowy Egret  4
Little Blue Heron  1
Tricolored Heron  2
Osprey  1
Northern Harrier  1
Peregrine Falcon  1
Black-bellied Plover  4
Semipalmated Plover  5
American Oystercatcher  5
Greater Yellowlegs  2
Lesser Yellowlegs  3
Whimbrel  2
Ruddy Turnstone  10
Sanderling  3
Semipalmated Sandpiper  41
Least Sandpiper  22
White-rumped Sandpiper  3
Dunlin  1
peep sp.  4     one long-winged bird flushed and headed north when the NOHA
appeared
Laughing Gull  14
Ring-billed Gull  4
Herring Gull  1
Caspian Tern  17
Forster's Tern  15
Royal Tern  2
Yellow-billed Cuckoo  2
Belted Kingfisher  1
Downy Woodpecker  1
Northern Flicker (Yellow-shafted)  2
Red-eyed Vireo  6
Fish Crow  6
Tree Swallow  23
Carolina Chickadee  2
Carolina Wren  3
House Wren  4
Eastern Bluebird  2
Swainson's Thrush  5
American Robin  3
Gray Catbird  86     Fallout on the island.  Impressive concentration all
over!  On the way in pre-dawn, there were 16 surrounding a puddle near one
of the CG entrances.
Northern Mockingbird  6
Brown Thrasher  8
European Starling  60
Northern Waterthrush  1
Black-and-white Warbler  1
Tennessee Warbler  1
Nashville Warbler  1
Connecticut Warbler  1     Juvenile, brown hood, dull pale yellowish throat,
complete eye ring, strong yellow underparts, brownish upper parts, walked
along branch briefly before hopping back into undergrowth
Common Yellowthroat  2
American Redstart  3
Cape May Warbler  1
Northern Parula  4
Magnolia Warbler  1
Blackpoll Warbler  1
Black-throated Blue Warbler  1
Palm Warbler  1
Yellow-rumped Warbler (Myrtle)  1
Prairie Warbler  1
Eastern Towhee  3
Clay-colored Sparrow  1     Hanging out with LASP, photos at:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/mikeycerw/6186628197/in/photostream/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/mikeycerw/6186627357/in/photostream/
Lark Sparrow  1     Juvenile bird, hanging out with CCSP photos at:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/mikeycerw/6186628197/in/photostream/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/mikeycerw/6186627357/in/photostream/
Savannah Sparrow  3
Song Sparrow  3
White-crowned Sparrow  1
Northern Cardinal  12
Rose-breasted Grosbeak  2
Blue Grosbeak  1
Indigo Bunting  2
Boat-tailed Grackle  7
Baltimore Oriole  4
House Finch  1
American Goldfinch  2

Assateague SP--Shell Road, Worcester, US-MD
Sep 25, 2011 11:50 AM - 12:40 PM
Protocol: Traveling
0.7 mile(s)
19 species

Double-crested Cormorant  20
Sanderling  32
Laughing Gull  25
Ring-billed Gull  4
Herring Gull  9
Lesser Black-backed Gull  2
Great Black-backed Gull  18
Caspian Tern  5
Common Tern  3
Forster's Tern  2
Royal Tern  3
Parasitic Jaeger  1     dark morph juv
Mourning Dove  2
Belted Kingfisher  1
Northern Flicker (Yellow-shafted)  2
Gray Catbird  7
Field Sparrow  5
Northern Cardinal  3
Bobolink  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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