Kiptopeke Challenge Rules & InformationWe participated in the Kiptopeke
Challenge yesterday, September 13, 2008. We are a special venue team and we
bird only the Eastern Shore National Wildlife Refuge. We were on the refuge
from 0630-1400 and again from 1800-1930 and we covered the main area of the
refuge, Wise Point and a bit of the Bull Tract that belongs to the refuge.
The day was hot and humid with a fair west-southwest wind most of the day.
Even with these conditions, we had our best totals for the 5 times we have
done the challenge. We totaled 77 species with some good warblers and a
fair hawk movement during the day.
We also had good numbers of butterflies, their list will follow the bird
list.
Here is the bird list for the day with numbers seen:
Brown Pelican 140
Double-crested Cormorant 226
Great Blue Heron 9
Great Egret 6
Snowy Egret 37
Tricolored Heron 2
Green Heron 12
White Ibis 13
Glossy Ibis 1
Canada Goose 9
Black Vulture 34
Turkey Vulture 15
Osprey 16
Bald Eagle 10
Northern Harrier 3
Sharp-shinned Hawk 5
Cooper's Hawk 5
Red-shouldered Hawk 2
Broad-winged Hawk 9
American Kestrel 2
Merlin 1
Peregrine 1
Northern Bobwhite 8
Clapper Rail 6
Black-bellied Plover 1
Greater Yellowlegs 1
Spotted Sandpiper 1
Sanderling 3
Laughing Gull 107
Ring-billed Gull 1
Herring Gull 37
Great Black-backed Gull 5
Caspian Tern 3
Royal Tern 2
Common Tern 6
Forster's Tern 11
Black Skimmer 1
Mourning Dove 2
Ruby-throated Hummingbird 2
Belted Kingfisher 3
Red-headed Woodpecker 4
Red-bellied Woodpecker 2
Downy Woodpecker 3
Northern Flicker 3
Pileated Woodpecker 1
Eastern Kingbird 3
Horned Lark 1
American Crow 4
Carolina Chickadee 7
Tufted Titmouse 4
Brown-headed Nuthatch 11
Carolina Wren 18
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher 9
Eastern Bluebird 8
Veery 1
American Robin 4
Gray Catbird 1
Northern Mockingbird 3
European Starling 48
White-eyed Vireo 2
Red-eyed Vireo 5
Yellow-rumped Warbler 1
Black-throated Green Warbler 1
Pine Warbler 13
Prairie Warbler 2
Black-and-White Warbler 5
American Redstart 4
Ovenbird 2
Northern Waterthrush 2
Common Yellowthroat 5
Hooded Warbler 1
Northern Cardinal 12
Blue Grosbeak 3
Indigo Bunting 8
Eastern Towhee 1
Chipping Sparrow 3
Baltimore Oriole 2
Butterflies:
Cloudless Sulphur hundreds
Common Wood Nymph 6
Common Buckeye hundreds
Cabbage White 4
Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 1
Gray Hairstreak 1
Orange Sulphur 2
Varigated Fritillary 3
Red spotted Purple 3
Tawny Emperor 1
Black Swallowtail 6
Painted Lady 2
Pearl Crescent 1
Gulf Fritillary 1
American Lady 1
Fiery Skipper 1
Palamedes Swallowtail 1
Monarch 1
Glenn Koppel and Mary Alice Koeneke
Centreville, VA
gjkoppel@xxxxxxx
