Field notes, v669
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Feb. 28, 1971 Reaches Run, Geo Wash Pkwy, near Nat. Airport, Virginia. 3-315 p.m. Cool, sunny, calm. Black-crown Night Heron-l Mallards - 30-35 Black Duck - 4 Baldpates - 70-75 Pintails - 25-30 Greater Scaup - 2 Coot - 1 Herring Gull - 4 Ring-billed Gull - 12's Mockingbird Starlings House Sparrows and Cardinal 3:30-4 p.m. Hunting Creek marshes and Potemoac R. Blue Heron - 1 Lesser Scaup - 12's Ruddy Ducks - 100's March 4, 1971, Portland, Oregon, Raleigh Hills Area. Glaucous-winged Gull California Gull Northwest Crow Scrub Jays Stellar Jays Oregon Chickadee Winter Wren - 1 chattering Bewick Wren Robins - some Varied Thrush - few Evening Grosbeaks House Finches Fox Sparrows March 13, 1971, Potomac River, below Great Falls, Mont. Co. Md. noon-2 p.m. clear, calm, warm. Wood Duck - pair Phoebe calling Blue Jays, Golden-crown Kinglets and rufous-sided Towhee - 4 1st Mourning Cloak March 27, 1971, Kent Island, Kent Co. US 50, south side ponds, to Dominion & Bennetts Poing. Horned Grebes - several Pied-billed Grebe - 2 Whistling Swan - few Canada Goose - 500 in 3 strings over Greater Scaup Canvasbacks -most at Bennett's Pt area Common Golden-eye - few Buffleheads - few Red-breasted Merganser - few Turkey Vultures - some Herring Gulls Tree Swallows along US 50 at 301, W of Annapolis Common Crow Fish Crow Robins Starlings House Sparrows Grackles and Redwings March 27, 1971, Queenstown to Centerville, Queen Ann Co. Md. Eastern Bluebird Cardinals Cowbirds March 27, 1971, Eastern Neck Island, Kent Co. Md. 1045-1115 a.m. EST. Clear, breezy, cool. Blue Heron - 2 Whistling Swans - 7-800 W of bridge to island Canado Goose -small numbers Mallard - few Black Duck - pairs in salt water Gadwall - 2 Baldpates - 6 Canvasbacks - 2 bunches of 70-100 Greater Scaup many Buffleheads Common Goldeneyes Osprey - 2 adults on nest tower by Marina Herring Gulls common Black-backed Gull - 1 Ring-billed Gulls in fields Mourning Dove - 1 Fish Crow, Mockingbird, Cardinals Slate-colored Juncos and Whit-ethrtd Sps. March 27, 1971, Remington Farms, Kent Co. 1135-1140 a.m. Canada Geese Greater Snow Geese Blue Geese Mallards Pintails March 28, 1971, Frederick Co. Md. Sugarloaf- New Design Road. l-3 p.m. Turkey Vultures - 20-25 Black Vulture - 1 over Sugarloaf Sparrow Hawk - 1 on MSH28 Pigeons Horned Larks - 2 on Oland Rd. Fish Crows Common Crow Mockingbirds Robins - many Starlings House Sparrows E. MeadowLarks Redwings Grackles Cowbirds Goldfinch White-thrtd. Sparrows