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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