Field notes, v669
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January 5, 1973, MSH335 to Hoopersville, Dorchester Co. Md. 8:15-9:55 cloudy,cool, calm. Common Loon - 1 Red-necked Grebe - 2 Horned Grebe - 15 G.Blue Heron - 3 Whistling Swan - 300& Canada Goose - 66 Mallard - 2M Black Duck - 14 Greater Scaup - 8 Lesser Scaup - 2 Surf Scoter - 1M Old Squaw - 12's all plumages Common Goldeneyes - 12's Bufflehead, 13Fl&M&8 Ruddy Duck - 2 Hooded Merganser - 2 Red-breasted Merganser - 6 Turkey Vultures com on Red-tailed Hawk Red-shouldered Hawk Sparrow Hawk - 3 Pheasant - 1M Black-backed Gull - 4 Ring-billed Gull - 12's Herring Gull - few Kingfisher - 3 Blue Jay - 1 Common Crow - 35& Fish Crow - 8 Mockingbird - 4 Starling - 100's House Sparrow - 20 Meadowlark - 4 Redwings - 12's Cowbird - 1 Boat-tailed Grackle - 6 Common Grackle - 18 Slate-color Junco - 2 Jan. 5, 1973, Blackwater NWR, Dorchester Co. Md. 10-11:15. Ovc, breezy, cool. Blue Heron - 3 Whistling Swans - 50 Canada Goose -5,000 Blue Goose - 6 Snow Goose - 72 Mallard - sev. Pintail - sev. Shoveller - 1/2 1M Common Golden-eye - few Turkey Vultures common Red-tailed Hawk - 1 Sparrow Hawk - 6 Coot - 6 Ring-bill Gulls - 12's Kingfisher Pileated Woodpecker - 1 Blue Jay Common Crow Brown-headed Nuthatch - 1 Meadowlark - 4 Redwings - 12's Song Sparrow - 3 Jan. 5, 1973, Fishing Bay WMA, Bestpitch, Dorch. Co. Md. 11:30-40 a.m. ovc,breezy,cool. Blue Heron - 3 Canada Goose - 65&250 Black Duck Turkey Vulture - 12's Marsh Hawk - 1F Herring Gulls Mourning Doves -12's Yel-shafted Flicker - 1 Common Crows Mockingbirds and Redwings Jan. 5, 1973, Ocean City, old ferry slip and channel inlet, 1:15-2:25. Windy, cloudy, cold. Common Loon Red-throated Loon Horned Grebes Black Ducks Old Squaws - 12's Common Scoters White-winged Scoters Sparrow Hawk Black-bellied Plover - few Black Turnstones - 12's Purple Sandpipers - 12-15 Sanderlings - 75-100 Western Sandpipers - 25-30 Black-headed Gulls Herring Gulls Ring-billed Gulls Laughing Gulls Black-headed Gull - 1 off jetty Mocker Starlings Jan. 5, 1973, Indian River Inlet, Sussex Co. Delaware. 3-13:25 p.m. Ovc, windy. cold Common Loon Old Squaws - 12's Purple Sandpiper - 12-15 Sanderlings Black-back Gulls Ring-billed Gulls Bonaparte Gulls Song Sparrow Jan. 5, 1973, Silver Lake, Rehoboth Beach, Sussex Co. Delaware. 3:35-3:45 Cold, ovc. Canada Goose - 274 Mallard - 68 Black Ducks - 110 Canvasback - 550 Black-back Gull - 2 Laughing Gull - 27 Ruddy Duck - 75 Jan. 5, 1973, Cape Henlopen, Sussex Co. Delaware. 4:15-5 p.m. Ovc, darkening, windy, cool. Eur. Cormorant - 6 Bufflehead - 3 Bobwhite - 8 Black Turnstone - 10 Sanderling - 4 Black-backed Gull - 4 Ring-billed Gull - 27 Laughing Gull - 6 Kittiwake - 8 Blue Jay - 1 Sharp-tailed Sparrow - 1 Ipswich Sparrow- 3