Field notes, v668
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550 May 16, 1970, C&O Canal, Great Falls to Water Intake, Mont. Co.Md. 6:25-8a.m.EDST Ovc,calm,cool Pied-billed Grebe Green Heron w/o red legs Mallards-2 pr. Wood Ducks - sev. pr. Red-shouldered Hawk - 1 Bobwhite - 2 Barred Owl - 1 Yellow-billed Cuckoo - 3 Mourning Dove - several Chimney Swifts - sev. Ruby-throated Hummer - 1 Yellow-shafted Flicker - Pileated Wpkr. 3 Red-bellied Wpkr Crested Flycatcher Eastern Kingbirds Acadian Flycatchers Wood Pewees Common Crows Rough-winged Swallows Barn Swallows Tufted Titmouse CCarolina Chickadees White-brst. Nuthatch Red-brst. Nuthatch Winter Wren Carolina Wren Mockingbird Catbird Robins Wood Thrush Gray-ckeeked Thrush Veery Blue-gray Gnatcatcher Starlings Red-eyed Vireo White-eyed Vireo Prothonotary Warbler Myrtle Warbler Cerulean Warbler Parula Warbler Ovenbird Northern Waterthrush Kentucky Warbler Yellowthroat Redstart House Sparrow Redwings C. Grackles Brn hd Cowbird Scarlet Tanager Cardinals Indigo Bunting C. Goldfinch Chipping Sp. Song Sparrow. 3542 May.16, 1970, North Beach Park, Ann Arundel Co. Md. ll-3:30p.m.EDST. Ovc, hazy, breezy Red-throated Loon - 1 Blue Heron - 3 Bobwhite - several Herring Gull - 2 Laughing Gull - sev.dozen Mourning Dove Yellow-shafted Flicker Yel.bellied Sapsucker Crested Flycatcher Blue Jay Long-billed Marsh Wren Mockingbird Catbirds Robin Wood Thrush Hermit Thrush Starling. Red-eyed Vireo Yellow Warbler Myrtle Warbler Black-polled Warbler Yellowthroat Yello-wbreasted Chat Redstarts House Sparrows Redwings *** "White-wing" in marsh NWof MSH26l, op. Cypress Av., full adult male, very striking in flight because of pure white epaulets, w/ no red. They were full size of normal red ones. Voice was somewhat off normal calls. Baltimore Oriole Orchard Oriole - 1 full male -whistles Cowbird Grackles Cardinals Indigo Buntings Chip Sp. Song Sp. Ruf-sided Towhee, Goldfinches 3543 May 22, 1970, New Design Road, Frederick Co. Md. 510-530 p.m. EDSt Clear, warm, calm. Bobwhite, Mourning Doves, Horned Larks, Fish Crow, Barn Swallow, Starling, House Sparrow, Redwings, Grackles, Cowbirds, Meadowlarks. and Sinupesent Bay 3544 May 23, 1970, Atlantic Ocean, to 10 mi. E of Ocean City, Md./3-6 p.m. Breezy, hazy, warm. Sooty Shearwater - 4 on water at one time Wilson Petrel - Oceanites oceanicus - up to 5/time * Harcourt's PetrelI - Oceanodroma castro - 1 crossed wake of boat, steady flight, back clear in going away view. Slight notch as in Robins, with complete white band as on Wilson's, and not broken by dark, as on Leach's. Was seen 3 1/2-4 miles out. D-c Cormorants Louisiana Heron Old Squaw on jetty Semi-palmated Plover Black-blelled Plovers Piping Plover Killdeer Ruddy Turnstones common Willet Hudsonian Curlew - 1 Purple Sandpipers in lighter summer plumage. Knots - several full plumage Long-billed Dowitchers Dunlins Oystercatchers Black Skimmers Parasitic ? Jaeger - small size-l Black-backed Gulls Herring Gulls Bonaparte Gulls Laughing Gulls Common Tern Forester Tern Black Tern - 1 offshore w/ others Least Terns Barn Swallows Blackburnian Warbler male came aboard ship l 3/4 mi E of O.City. Redwing Bob Pyle banded it. Grackles 3545