July 21, 1973, Chincoteague NWR, Virginia - 9-4:30 p.m. Calm-breezy, Clear-brkn. 75-85°F. Horned Grebe Pied-billed Grebe Blue Herons Green Herons Little Blue Herons Cattle Egrets Common Egrets - many Snowy Egrets - common Louisiana Heron -sev. Black-crowned Night Heron - 3 Glossy Ibis - common Mute Swan - 2 Mallards and yng. Black Duck and yng. Gadwall and yng Pintail Blue-winged Teal Osprey - 1 Bobwhite - called all day King Rail - 2 Clapper Rail - 12's/yng Gallinule - 8 Piping Plover - 2 Golden Plover - 8-10 C. Snipe - 4 Whimbrel - 15-20 Spotted Sandpiper - 1 Solitary Sp. - 2 Willet - 12's Gr. Yellowlegs - 3 Lesser Yellowlegs - 12' Knot - 10-12 Pectoral Sandpiper -15 Least Sandp. Dunlins - 25-30 Long-billed Dowitchers common Stilt Sandpiper - 3 Semipalmated Sandp - 12-15 W. Sandpipers Sanderlings Black-backed Gulls - few Herring Gulls Laughing Gulls abundant Forster Tern w/ yng. Common Tern w/ young Least Tern Black Terns w/ yng. Whit-ewing Black Tern - 1 Black Skimmer - sev. Chimney Swifts Yellow-shafted Flickers Eastern Kingbird Eastern Phoebe Least Flycatcher Tree Swallow w/ yng. Rough-winged Swallow Barn Swallow w/ yng Purple Martins w/ yng C and Fish Crows Brown-headed Nuthatch Long-billed Marsh Wren Mockingbird Catbirds common Robins Starlings Yellowthroats House Sparrow E. Meadowlarks Redwinged Blackbirds Boat-tailed Grackle Com on Grackle Cardinal Cowbirds Ruf-sided Towhee Sharp-tailed Sparrow Seaside Sparrow Swamp Sparrow Song Sparrow 3899 July 26, 1973, Sugarloaf, Mont. Co. Md. 9:30-4 p.m. Sctd-Brkn. breezy, warm-hot. Turkey Vulture Pewee House Wren Cardinal Black Vulture Blue Jay Car. Wren Ruf-sided Towhee Chimney Swift C. Crows Catbird Song Sp. Yel-sh. Flicker Purple Martins Robin Red-bellied Wpkr. Barn Swallow Chestnut-sided Warbler Downy Wprk. Carol. Chikadee Ovenbird 3900 August 10, 1973, Skyline Drive-Thornton Gap-Big Meadows, Va. 7:15-3:15 O-Ovc. Warm,humid,brzy. Turkey Vulture - 1 Barn Swallows - 12's Ruf-sided Towhees & yng very common Red-tailed Hawk - 1 Tufted Titmice - 8 C. Goldfinches - 12& Broadwinged Hawk - 2 Wh-brst Nuthatch - 4 Slate-colored Juncos - prs and nests Mourning Dove - 1 House Wren - 1 Chipping Sparrows Chimney Swift - 2 Catbird - 4 Field Sparrows Ruby-thtrtd.Hummer - 2 Robin - sev. Pine Woods Sparrow - 1 Yel-shafted Flicker -1 Solitary Vireo - 2 3901 Pileated Wpkr - 1 Philadelphia Vireo - 1 Downy Wpkr - 3 Chestnut-sided Warb - 6-8 Phoebe - 1 Balt. Oriole - 1 Pewee - 8 Cardinals - 4 Raven - 4& Rose-brstd Grosbeak - 2 C. Crow - 12& Indigo Bunting - 6