Field notes, v669
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April 25, 1976, Mason Neck.NWR, Mirginia. 645-1115 EDST -1st a.m. on saving. overcast, occsnl rain showers, breezy, w/ DBM and JSG. Little Blue Heron - 1 wh and 1 blue pair flew across the marshes. Wood Ducks common and mallards Crested Flycatcher Worm-eating Warbler - 1 called Sharp-shinned Hawk Tree Swallows Prothonotary Warbler Cooper Hawk feeding on ? Barn Swallow (and at 530EDST -dark) Woodcock - 1 in swamp Mocker Cerulean Warbler Spotted Sandpiper along Potomac sandy shore Myrtle Warbler-100's Mourning Dove Catbird Parula Warbler - 12's Barred Owl Robin Prairie Warbler - many Flicker Wood Thrush -common Kentucky Warbler - 1? Red-bellied Wpkr. White-eyed Vireo Yellowthroat Downy Wpkr. Red-eyed Vireo Orchard Oriole - many lst-yr.M's. Scarlet Tanager -sev. Cardinals Indigo Bunting Swamp Sp.-sev. Pink Moccasinflower - Fl.8 1/30 64 ASA. Apr. 26 into S Penna S of Harrisburg - TV, Sparrow Hawk Pheasant May 1, 1976, Hughes Hollow, Mont. Co.Md. 630-715 EDST Ovc. cool, calm.w/DBM,JSG Green Heron Gnatcatcher Blue-winged Teal ? Vireo King Rail- lfeeding in woody-weedy growth in pond, calling regularly like two stones. Crested Flycatcher Pine Siskins Acadian Flycatcher April 26, May 1, 1976, Sycamore Landing 745-845 EDST. Ovc. RW- Red-shouldered Hawk Prothonotary Warbler - 4or 5 singing Eastern Kingbird Baltimore Oriole singing hi in syesamore Red-eyed Vireos about Evening Grosbeaks over. May 5, 1976, Turkey Run, Virginia. 635-835EDST. 35-40° Windy, clear. Green Heron Carolina Chickadees Myrtle Warblers - 100's Wood Duck Tufted Titmouse Parula Warbler Mourning Dove White-brstd Nuthatch Black-throated Blue Warblers Chimney Swift Carolina Wren Louisiana Waterthrush Yel-sh. Flickers House Wren Northern Waterthrush Pileated Wpkr. Catbirds Kentucky Warbler Pine Siskins Red-bellied Wpkr. Mockingbirds Redstart Wh-thrtd Sps. Hairy Wpkr. Brown Thrasher House Sparrow Song Sp. CrestedFlycatcher Robin Common Grackle Pewee Wood Thrush Cowbirds Barn Swallow Blue-gray Gnatcatchers Scarlet Tanager lpr Purple Martins Starlings Cardinals Blue Jays to N Red-eyed Vireo Ruf-sided Towhee Common & Fish Crows Tennessee Warblers Common Goldfinches Dewberries between Camp A & B at 15-mile sign and bridge below. May 9, 1976 W"special records at Owens Creek, Catoctin Mtns. Md. w/ DBM. 7-930 a.m. Blue Heron overhead Ovenbirds Scarlet Tanager Broadwing Hawk N. Waterthrush Rose-brstd Grosbeaks singing Ruffed Grouse - one heard drumming, later flushed another along creek Woodcock - adult on paved road, no hurry to move off as our car approached. Catbird Elk-thrtd Blue Warbler Evening Grosbeaks over Wood Thrush Yellowthroat Indigo Bunting - 1 irridescent turquoise- Ruby-crowned Kinglets Redstarts common dark with much white-gray on wings and tail - a hybrid?? May 13, 1976, Oxford, Md. Blue Heron 2 Osprey on nest on channel marker, Mallards, Barn Sw., Crackles Purple finch. species seen at Blackwater NWR, Md. this a.m. and not seen at Chincoteague reported on following page: Pintail - Bald Eagle immature - Pileated Wpkr.-Yellow-thrtd Vireo - Worm-eating Warbler Parula Warbler - Orchard Oriole- Baltimore Oriole - Indigo Bunting