Field notes, v669
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ober 12, 1973, Hot Springs, Garland Co. Arkansas. Heavy rain storms, p.m. Chimney Swifts - big numbers in evening + Oct. 14 at airport: Blue Jays Buff-breasted Sandpiper C. Crows Killdeer House Sparrows BJ, C. Crow and E. Meadowlark 3924 November 17, 1973, Queen Anne Co, US50-Bridgetown, Md. w/ David B. Marshall. - before 7a.m. E of 305 - Peregrine Falcon N of 304, W of Bridgetown - Wilson Snipe flushed by lime-spreader. 3925 Nov. 17, 1973, DSH 10, Md. line to Viola & US 113, Kent Co. Delawra - 7:23-755 a.m. Ovc.cool Pied-billed Grebe Laughing Gull Starlings Slate-coloredJuncos DEM Canada Geese Mourning Dove House Sparrow White-throated Sns. 3926 Mallards Blue Jay E. Meadowlark Song Sparrow Black Ducks Common & Fish Crow Redwing Pintails Car. Chickadee Cowbirds Turkey Vultures Wh-brstd Nuthatch C. Grackles Marsh Hawk - 2 Mockingbird Cardinals Killdeer Robin Ruf-sided Towhee Nov. 17, 1973, Bower's Beach, Kent Co. Delaware 8a.m.-820 breezy, cold, cloudy. DEM Blue Heron - 2 Clapper Rail - 1 called Herring Gulls 3927 Whistling Swan - few Kil'deer Pipit Canada Geese flocks common Gr. Black-backed Gulls Boat-tailed Grackles Snow Geese - 5000& in air over Delaware Bay C. Goldfinches Black Ducks Bonaparte Gulls Old Squaws - 25-30 to N Ring-billed Gulls Nov. 17, 1973, Port Mahon and ponds, Kent Co. Dela. 8:45-900 a.m. Cold, breezy, cloudy.DEM Bufflehead - 2 Tree Sparrow 3928 Marsh Hawk White-throated Sparrow Kestrel Song Sparrow Nov. 17, 1973, Bombay Hook NWR, Kent Co. Dela. w/ DEM. 910-noon. Windy, cold, clr-brknn. Blue Heron - 2 Marsh Hawk -3or 4 Herring and Ring-billed Gulls Com. Egret - 5 Kestrel - few Myrtle Warbler 3929 Canada Goose - 50-75,000 Coot - 12's House Sparrows Hutchins??Can.Goose - 12's Killdeer - 12-15 Meadowlark (10) Redwings - 12's Snow Goose - 300&,ad& imms. Gr. Yellowlegs - 17/4 Slate-colored Juncos 12's Blue Goose -40' ad & imms. Dunlin -12's on tiderud Lincoln Sp.-1- Mallard - 100's ***Curlew Sandpiper-Erolia ferruginea - winter plumage-wide Black Duck - 12's eyestripe, bill curved all the way, not just hooked at tip. Very long and slender, longer than head. breast Pintail - 12's quite light. Had white tail base in flight. Alone with Green-winged Teal -100's a wing-billed gull on marsh mud near end of road loop.noon. Baldpate - few Deeps - 12's Showeller - few Nov. 17, 1973, Cape Henlopen, Sussex Co. Dela. DBM.12+50-2:45 p.m. Cold, windy, brkn-clear. Hiked around Cape and down thru dune area to parking area. Tree Swallows 25& Common Loon - 4 Sanderling flock - 1/3 winter, 2/3 summer plumage 3930 Red-throated Loon 12& Gr. Black-backed Gulls Ipswich Sparrow - 2/3 European Cormorant - 2 Ring-billed and Laughing Gulls Fox Sparrow Double-crested Cormorant - 4 Little Gull - on ocean, longit.black stripes of imm. Canada Goose flocks few showed well. Song Sparrows Marsh Hawk - 2 Horned Larks - 2 w/ plovers on grass Lapland Longspur- 3 Kestrel - 1 Fish Crows Snow Buntings -45-50 Black-bellied Plover - 13&, both on grass fields and along bayshore. Semi-palmed Plover - 1, side by side with Piping Plover - 1 , yoth in shelter from wind. Ruddy Turnstone - 150& in one flock on shore.