About 8 birders joined me for the weekly Dyke Marsh walk this morning. The
weather was cool, windy, and beautiful. Given the passage of Ivan and the
screaming north winds last night, I had hoped it would be a good flight not
with
some nice migrants around. Unfortunately, there were few migrants, and most of
the best birds, including a LINCOLN'S SPARROW, were seen by me alone prior to
the walk (and the wind). We did see several unidentifiable raptors soaring
over Maryland. A complete list follows.
Cormorant 50
Canada goose 5
Mallard 20
Great blue 4
Great egret 4
Turkey vulture 1 (over MD.)
Osprey 3
Bald eagle 4
Sharp-shined 1
Greater yellowlegs 2
GBB gull 2
RB gull 200+
Caspian tern 15
Forster's tern 1
Rock pigeon 2
Modo 5
Swift 150 (all heading north, including one group of 100 shortly after
sunrise)
Kingfisher 1
Red-bellied WP 3
Downy 5
Hairy 1
Flicker 5
Pileated 1
Blue jay 3
American crow 2
Robin 25
Catbird 8
Mocker 1
Thrasher 1
Starling 20
Carolina wren 6
House wren 2
Chickadee 6
Titmouse 1
Goldfinch 2
House finch 3
Redstart 1 (reported by others)
Parula 1 (reported by others)
Common yellowthroat 2
Song sparrow 1
Lincoln's sparrow 1 (beautiful view of the bird, perched next to the song
sparrow, by the little bridge on the Haul Road)
Cardinal 15
Grackle 1
Red-winged black bird 100 (about half of which had little or no tail)
Ben Jesup
Alexandria
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