Field notes, v669
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October 18, 1975, Bombay Hook NWR, Port Mahon, and Prime Hook NWR, Delaware, 930-130p.m. Common Loon -Bombay Hook unless PM or PH used, for additional species not at BH. Pied-billed Brebe Double-crested Cormorant Greater Cormorant Blue Heron Great Egret American Bittern Mute Swan - 2 at PM Canada Goose - 1000's Snow Goose - 12's Mallards Pintail Green-winged Teal - abundant Am. Wigeon PM N. Shoveller Wood Duck -PH - 2 Greater Saaup Common Scoter -150PH Ruddy Duck 100's and 1 white-beige with them Turkey Vulture - everywhere Bald Eagle- 1 adult Marsh Harrier - PM Merlin - 1 at PH Am. Kestrels Ring-necked Pheasant Bobwhite Am. Coot Killdeer - PM Ruddy Turnstone PM Common Snipe Greater Yellowlegs Pectoral Sandpiper-12's White-rumped Sandpiper Least Sandpiper Dunlin Short-billed Dowitcher Western Sandpiper Marbled Godwit - 4 Hudsonian Godwit - 2 Sanderling Am. Avocet - sev.100 Gr. Black-backed Gulls with them Herring Gulls Laughing Gulls Common Tern Royal Tern - 3 at PM Mourning Doves common everywhere Belted Kingfisher - PM Com. Flicker - sev at PH Tree Swallow - 2 at PH Blue Jay - PH Car. Wren Long-bill Marsh Wren Mockingbird Grey Catbird Ruby-crowned Kinglets Starlings Yellow-rumped Warbler p-M E. Meadowlark - PM Redwinged Blackbirds Rusty Blackbird - PH C. Crackles Brown -headed Cowbird Rufous-sided Towhee Savannah Sp. PM Sharp-tailed Sparrows Dark-eyed Juncos Swamp Sparrow Song Sparrow October 24, 1975, Front Royal, Virginia. Brown Creeper Evening Grosbeaks and Purple Finches Nov. 8, 1975, C&O Canal, Anglers Inn toLock 16 - 11-1215. Clear, warm. Turkey Vultures Flicker Pileated Woodpecker Common Crow Blue Jay Carolina Chickadee Tufted Titmouse House Wren Carolina Wren - common, noisy Ruby-crowned Kinglets Cardinal C. Goldfinches Juncos common Dec. 10, 1975, Turkey Run,Park, Virginia. 2-315p.m. 45°, windy, brkn.w/MJE Downy Woodpecker Car. Chickadee Wh-brst Nuthatch Ruby-crown Kinglets Com. & Fish Crows Tufted Titmouse Starling Car. Wren Cardinals Juncos Dec. 14, 1975, C&O Canal to Plummers Isl. Mont. Co.Md. 1-2 p.m. Calm, 60&°, Clear. Pileated Woodpecker Black-capped Chickadees Brown Creeper Red-bellied Wpkr. Carolina Chickadees Ruby-crowned Kinglet Hairy and Downy Wpkrs. House Wren - 2 Starlings Blue Jays Carolina Wren - 8 Evening Grosbeak Common and Fish Crows Tufted Titmice White-throated Sps. 12/14/75 7805 English Way, Bethesda, Md. at home a.m. and p.m. Partial albino White-throated Sparrow - basic posture and activity more like a white- crowned sparrow AND than a white-throated sparrow. Head, cape and throat white, with 2 intense black head stripes, but wider white between than white-throat. Wider and longer yellow before and over eyes, than in white-throat. Grayish washes on chest, underside white, but tan-gray sides to vent, underside, vertical sharp edge forward. Eye dark, legs pink upper shoulder white, back between wings brown, with some pattern of longitudinal stripes showing. white scapulars and tertials, tann-gray 2nd and primaries, with one line showing across wing folded - line dotted. Black head stripes not joined. Rump and tail brown-gray