Field notes, v669
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May 19, 1973, Chincoteague NWR, Virginia - 3-5 p.m. Clear, windy, warm. Common Egret Spotted Sandpiper Tufted Titmouse Snowy Egret Ring-billed Gull Brown-headed Nuthatches Louisiana Heron Black-backed Gulls House Wrens Green Heron Royal Terns Catbird Glossy Ibis Yellow-shafted Flicker Yellowthroats Mallards Eastern Kingbirds Meadowlarks Black Duck - F w/ ½ young(7) Crested Flycatcher Redwings Gadwalls - pairs common Barn Swallow Boat-tailed and Common Grackles Osprey - 3 Tree Swallow Cowbirds Bobwhite Cliff Swallow Cardinals Coots Purple Martins Ruf-sided Towhee Wilson Snipe Fish Crow Sharp-tailed Sparrow Pectoral Sandpiper Blue Jay May 20, 1973, Atlantic Ocean, Cape Henry, Virginia to 45 #east of Cape. 6-2:30 p.m. EDST MOS trip. Stormy (tornado nearby) Heavy winds, downpours, etc. Common Loons - several Red-throated Loon - 1 Sooty Shearwater - 1 Wilson Petrel - 80& Leach Petrel - 2 Harcourt Petrel - 6 or 8 w/ shallow-forked tail. Gannet - 1 Double-crested Cormorant - 6 Blue Heron - 3 grouped, to N at 1:45 p.m. Cattle Egret - 1 Solitary Sandpiper - 3 Phalaropes - sp. unknown Pomarine Jaeger - 5 Parasitic Jaeger - 1 very dark phase Herring Gulls - few Laughing Gulls- 12's Arctic Tern - 3 ?? Common Tern - 2 Barn Swallows - several, 1/time,way out Yellow Warbler - way out. && dickeybirds! June 2, 1973, Hughes Hollow and Sycamore Landing, Mont. Co. Md. 6-8 a.m. (listing only possible year-listers or those of special interest) Black Duck - F and 5 ½-1/3 grown crossed the road Bittern - pair Barred Owl - hooted 2 or 3 times at length Sharp-shinned Hawk - 1 Eastern Kingbirds Wood Ducks White-eyed Vireo Bay-breasted Warbler F 6/9/73- Can bird comms route - see next sheet - June 12, 1973, Cabin John Regional Park, Group Area. Mont. Co.Md. 5:45-6:20 a.m. 70&°W/AGE Yellow-billed Cuckoo - 1 Carolina Chickadee - 2 Red-bellied Woodpecker - 1 Caroline Wren - 1 Crested Flycatcher - 4 Wood Thrush - 2 Phoebe - 2 Starling - 2 Acadian Flycatcher - 5-6 Red-eyed Vireo G. Grackles Pewee - 2 Tennessee Warbler - 1 Cardinals - 4 C. Crows - 6 Ovenbirds - 4-5 Indigo Bunting - 2 Blue Jay - 1 Kentucky Warbler - 2 ***OUTSIDE THE UNITED STATES, June 16-25, 1973 - Ireland, Wales and England.-See Notes