I also birded in Worcester today, looking for new species for my cumulative March list in Worcester; almost all time in the Pocomoke Forest area. Had one life month bird, Black-and-white Warbler, 6 of them. Mike Walsh had one last week, but still a good date. Other warbers were Yellow-throated (30, actual count), Pine (36), Cm Yellowthroat (1) and Louisiana Waterthrush (5). Also 1 Myrtle in the OC area. Missed the NOPA at Blades-record date for WC. Also 13 gnatcatchers.
Oddest thing was running into Jim B and Jared S at the Wawa in Easton (no House Sparrows) around 5 am, and Jared S along Mt Olive Church Rd in the dark at 625. Small world!!
Mark Hoffman
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Date: Sat, 31 Mar 2012 21:41:03
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Subject: [MDOSPREY] Worcester Highlights 3/31
Hi All,
I'm going to be brief, but wanted to share some highlights (mostly just
FOYs) from today. Started at dawn along Mt Olive Church Rd, no problem
getting my FOY YELLOW-THROATED WARBLERS and BLUE-GRAY GNATCATCHERS. They
are all over, in fact. I had multiples at most places today. A brief turn
down Sturges rd, yielded nice looks at a singing LOUISIANA WATERTHRUSH.
Back on mt olive church, I drove slowly with the windows down and soon
heard a BLACK-AND-WHITE WARBLER. I pulled over and managed a few looks at
him, stunning. After a few more stops, I went down to Taylor's
Landing/Vaughn North where I ran into Jim Brighton and Jared Satchell. At
vaughn we had several FOY COMMON YELLOWTHROAT. I parted ways with those
guys and then went to Truitt's Landing. Best here was a calling KING RAIL
and 36 DOWITCHERS. The dowitchers were quite distant. Most appeared to be
short-billed, but actually had a few on the far east side I thought while
in the field fit better with long-billed. I have a bit of digiscoped video
to go through, but they might have to stay unID'd. On Assateague, I had
VIRGINIA RAILS and a TRICOLORED HERON from the Life of the Forest trail.
While at Bayside Development ponds, I had a large group (30) of white
egrets GREAT/SNOWY fly over. Also a group of 33 GLOSSY IBIS picked up and
put back down at Eagles Nest Golf Course. At Ocean City Inlet, winds were
howling. Quite a few red-throated loons closeby. Nice to see was a ROYAL
TERN sitting on the beach. On the way back, I stopped by Hurlock Wastewater
treatment ponds. Peeking over the dike I was happy to find 42 BONAPARTE'S
GULLS sitting on the water, some as close as 40ft. Plenty of Tree Swallows
(300+), Ring-necked, Ruddy, wigeon, Northern Shoveler (19) and 6
BLUE-WINGED TEAL were also nice. Great day in all.
Jared Fisher
North Bethesda, MD
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