Field notes, v668
Page 385
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Aug. 16, 1968, Rehoboth-Indian R. Inlet, Sussex Co. Delaware. 2-6:30 p.m. 90°F strong S wind. Piping Plover Ruddy Turnstones Marbled Godwit - 1 off jetty Purple Sandpiper - 1 " " Sanderlings Laughing Gull Herring Gull Ring-billed gull Bonaparte Gull Royal Tern Common Tern Forster Tern Least Tern Black Skimmer Barn Sallow Bknk Sailow Purple Martins House Sparrow Boat-tailed Grackle Common Goldfinch Song Sp. 3376 Aug. 17, 1968, Rehoboth Bay area Sussex C. Dela. 6:30-8:30 a.m. Warm. calm. Double-crested Cormorant - 4 Blue Heron - sev. Common Egret - 15 Green Heron - 2 Black Brat - 6 Blak Duck - 2 Marsh Hak - 1 Osprey - 2 Clapper Rail - 3 Black Rail - 1 Sora Ral - 1 Piping Plover - 2 Golden Plover - 2 Black-bellied Plover - 2 Ruddy Turnstone - 15-20 Semipalmated Plover - 10 Longbilled Dowitcher - few Short-billed Dowitcher -few Sanderlings - 12's Spotted Sandpiper - 2 winter Greater Yellowlegs Lesser Yellowlegs Stilt Sandpiper Dunlin - 4 Pectoral Sandpiper Western Sandpiper White-rumped Ssndpiper Least Sandpiper Herring Gull Ring-billed Gull Laughing Gull Royal Tern - 15-20 Common Tern 12's Forster Tern few Least Tern - 12's Black Skimmer - 1 Chimney Swifts Fish Crow Tree Swallows - 1000's Barn Swallows - 12's Purple Martins Long-billed Marsh Wren - 2 Short-billed Marsh Wren - 1 Starlings Redwings Boat-tailed Grackle Seaside Sparrow - 3 Sharp-tailed Sparrow - 12's Lingoln Sp. - 2 Song Sp. 2. 3377 Aug. 17, 1968, Cape Henlopen, Sussex Co. Del. 4-5 p.m. 95°F calm. Golden Plovers Black-bellied Plover Stilt Sandpiper Saderlings Laughing Gull - 12's Herring Gulls Black-back Gull - 1 ad Royal Tern - 15 Common Tern - 150 Least Terns Black Skimmers - 12's Tree Swallows - 1000's Barn Swallows - 12's Redwings. few 3378 Aug. 25, 1968, N & E of Huntington, Hampshire Co- Peru, Berkshire Co. Mas?- Wood pewee Blue Jays Black-cap Chickadee Red-breasted Nuthach White-brstd Nuthatch Robins E. Bluebirds common C. Redstarts Ruf-sided Towhee Common Goldfinches 3379 Aug. 26, 1968, Amherst, Hampshire Co. Mass. Tree Swallows Blue Jays Common Crows Catbird Brown Thrasher Starlings Tennessee Warbler Nashville Warbler House Sp. #sided Towhee 3380 Aug. 27, 1968, Quabbin Reservoir Penin. Hampshire Co. Mass. w/ Bill Sheldon - 9-11 a.m.70?- bre; Red-tailed Hawk - 1 Red-shouldered Hwk - 1 Broad-winged Hk - 1 Ruffed Grouse - lad and 3-4l/3-grown Yellow-shafted Flicker - common Wood pewee Barn Swallows Blue Jays Scarlet Tan - 1 ad.F & l mottled M Indigo Bunting Blk-capped Chickadees Robins - 12's Starlings - 1l Com. Goldfinch Watershed planted to Wh & Red pine and Norway Spruce & Larch 3381 Aug. 30-31, 1968, Cowans Gap St. Park, Franklin & Fulton Cos. Penna. Clear, cool, breezy. Common Nighthawk - 4 Whippoorwill - 1 Yellow-shafted Flicker - 10 Pileated Wpkr - 2 Hairy Wprk - 2 Downy Wpkr - 8 Wood pewee Blue Jays common Common crow - 10 Blk-cap Chickadee - few White-brst Nuthatch - common Robins on wild cherry, also Cedar Waxwings Red-eyed Vireos philadelphia Vireo Scarlet Tanager -molting M - dark face, rest of head red, blk wings, red rump, green back, light yellow-green sides & breast. 1 white spot on wings Cardinal Common Goldfinches Chipping Sparrows Slate-color Junco - 2 3382