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Old Squaw & 8-10,000 gulls on ice - east end, Bay Bridge
Golden Eagle N of Easton, US50
Jan. 31, 1976, Blackwater NWR, Dorchester Co. Md. 9-9:45. Ovc, breezy, cold
Blue Heron Turkey Vultures Herring Gull Brown-hd Nuth. Cardinals
Canada Geese Sharp-shinned Hawk Ring-bill G. Car. Wren C. Goldfinch
Snow Geese Red-tailed Hawk Mourning Dove Mockers Ruf-side Towhee
Mallards Bald Eagles-2 Kingfisher Starlings Sharp-tail Sp.
Black Duck Marsh Hawk 1M Y-s Flicker Myrtle Warblers Wh-thrtd Sp.
Gadwall Sparrow Hawk Hairy Wpkr. House Sparrows Swamp Sp.
Pintail Coots Horned Larks E. Meadowlark Song Sp.
Widgeon Common Snipe Blue Jay Redwings
Shoveler Dunlins C & F Crows Rusty BB
Ruddy Ducks Western Sandpiper Car. Chickadee Cowbirds
Near Blackwater, NW of Bestpitch - Can. Goose w/ white pate and nape, separate patches
Jan. 31, 1976, Indian River Inlet, Delaware. 1230-45 noon.
Greater Scaup - 40-45 Old Squawa - 50%
Common and Surf Scoters - many Purple Sandpipers - 8-10
Wh-wing Scoter - few Bonaparte Gulls - 6-7
Jan. 31, 1976, Silver Lake, Rehoboth Delaware - 1255-117p.m.
Canada Goose - 1,580
Mallard - 20%
Black Duck - 80%
Canvasbacks -2 groups - 1600 of which 210 were fimms, and 700 of which 230 were fimms.
Coot - 1 (2300)
Herring Gull - 668
Black-back Gulls - 20-25
Jan. 31, 1976, Cape Henlopen, Delaware. 145-215p.m.
Loons Sanderlings Ring-bill Gulls
Greater Cormorant W. Sandpipers Bonaparte Gull
Blue Heron Turnstones Fish Crow
White-wing Scoter Herring Gull Mocker
Buffleheads Greater Black-back Gull Myrtle Warbler
Red-breasted Mergansers Lesser Black-back Gull Field Sp. Junco, Song Sp.
(100's Redheads at Dewey Beach in Assawoman Bay)
Jan. 31,1976, W Ocean City Pond, Md.
Canada Goose - 150-200 Canvasback - 1000& Coots - 30-40
and in bay at Ocean City bridge - Black-bellied Plover, Turnstones and Killdeer.
Jan. 319/1976. Assateague Island, N end, Md. 4-445p.m. Beach clear, only sanderlings.
Brant - 200& Black Ducks1
Horned Grebe - several Boat-tailed Grackles.
Louisiana Heron Goldeneye Ducks
February 1, 1976, Ocean City Inlet - 7-710a.m. Cold, drizzly.
Pied-billed Grebe - 2 Snow Geese - 18 Old Squaw - 15-20
Blue Heron - 1 Common Eider - 4 Aer. Ring-bill & Bonap.Gulls
Brant - 12 Common, Wh-wing and Surf Scoters
ASEA - to 60mi E of Ocean City - 710-545p.m.
Common Loon - 2
Gannets - 12's, mostly adults as singles or to groups of 8. Some few had yellow on head.
Only 4-5 immatures - all dark except white on head and bit of shoulders & wings.
Herring, Black-backed and Bonaparte Gulls - 12's
Black-legged Kittiwakes - 12's farther out.
Dovekie - 1, 2, 2, 1, 2, 4 No Razorbill - 1, for sure, perhaps 2
Puffin, Common 3 or 4, last about 1h5 p.m.
Skua - 1, 1, 2, 1, 1, 1, and 1 chasing a gull to the water. (Maybe later?)
Pomarine Jaeger - 1
2/7/76 - Jackson Farm on Sine Hill MD 6/108