May 13-14, 1976, Chincoteague and NWR, 130p.m. 5/13 thru 5 p.m. 5/14. Ovc-towarm,breezy. Common Loon Pied-bill Brebe Frigatebird over hi/5/14 D-c Cormorant Blue Heron Green Herons few Little Blue Heron few-now Cattle Egret few Common Egret -many Snowy Egret -many&& Lou?siana Heron - few Blk-crown Nite Heron few Glossy Ibis - 150& Mute Swan - 10pr. Whistling Swan - 3& Canada Goose - 40 Mallards Black Ducks Gadwalls Blue-wing Teal Shoveler Wood Duckprs Lesser Scaup -l Ruddy Duck - 35040 Turkey Vulture -l Osprey - 3,2 on nest Bobwhite -many pair King Rail - sev. Clapper Rail - #2 Virginia Rail Sora Rail Oystercatcher - 2 pr. Semipalmated Plover few Wilson Plover - 1 Killdeer Black-bellied Plover -few Ruddy Turnstone - 50 Common Snipe Whimbrel - 3 Spotted Sandpiper - 4 Solitary Sandpiper -4 Willet - 100's Greater Yellowlegs - 5 Lesser Yellowlegs - 15 Knot -3 Pectoral Sandpiper - 12's White-rump Sp. - 6 Least Sandp. - 1000's Dunlin - 100's Short-bill Dowitcher 100'sTree Swallow Long-bill Dowitchers 12's Bank Swallow Stilt Sp. - 3 Sempalmated Sp. 12's Western Sandp. 100's &100'Burple Martin Sanderling 100's Black-necked Stilt - l Black-back Gull - few Herring Gull - few Ring-bill Gull few Laughing Gull - 100's Forster Tern - Common Tern Least Tern Caspiam Tern Black Tern -l @4p.m. Black Skimmer - 3 Mourning Dove Yellow-billed Cuckoo Black-billed Cuckoo E. Bluebird Chuck-will'swidow-l C. Nighthawk Chimney Swift KingBisher Yel-shft Flicker Red-bellied Wpkr Hairy & Downy Wpkr Eastern Kingbird Crstd. Flycatcher Eastern Phoecbe Acadian Flycatcher Traill Flycatcher Eastern W.Pewee Horned Lark-soaring C & Fish Crows Carolina Chickadees Wh-brst Nuthatch Brown-hd Nuthatch House Wren Carolina Wren Long-bill MarshWren Mocker Catbird Brown Thrash er Robin Wood T.rush Swainson Thrush Gray-cheeked Thrush Blue-gray Gnatcatcher Starling White-eye Vireo Red-eye Vireo Worm-eating Warbler Yellow Warbler Blue-wing Warbler Pine Warbler Prairie Warbler Ovenbird Yellowthroat House Sparrow Redwings E. Meadowlark Baltimore Oriole Boat-tail Gra kle C. Grackle Cowbird Scarlet Tanager Cardinal Indigo Bunting Evening Grosbeak Purple Finch C. Goldfinch Ruf-sided Towhee Sharp-tail Sp. Seaside Sp. Chipping Sp. Swamp Sp. Song Sp. 136 sp.total. May 23, 1976, C&O Canal, Pennyfield Lock upstrean. 630-8a.m. Clear, cool, calm, DBMarshall Yellow-crowned Night Heron - l flew down canal Ruby-throated Hummer F flew to nest on elder limb sloping downward, nest about 15-18' over canal water level Chimney Swifts circling and dipping bills into a very calm, smooth-flowing Potomac. Parula Warbler Canada Warbler Kentucky Warbler Baltimore Oriole flew to and entered nest in Tulip tree, about 35' over canal water. Orchard Oriole Snapping Turtle crossing towpath. May 25, 1976, Great Falls Va. Clear, cool, calm, JSGottschalk. 630-730 a.m. Swainson Thrush - Swainson Warbler -at two separate sites. singing from 20-25' on open under branches. Hard to see, but tipped head way back and tail vibrated during song. Song different for each species. Canada Warbler Ovenbird Kentucky Warbler Redstart Pileated Wpkr. May 27, 1976, Billy Goat Trail, Widewater, C&O, Md. 6-73Op.m. Warm, calm, clear. Spotted Sandpipers Solitary Snndpiper Nighthawks Barred Owl called about 720p. from island. Rough-winged, Cliff and Barn Swallows. Cedar Waxwings - 4 Cerulcean Warbler came quickly to ssspping Laz-Indigo Bunting male hybride???