April 3, 1971, Va. Rte. 175, USl3-Chincoteague, Virginia. 9:35-10 a.m. Clear, cool, breezy. Common Loon in Chinco. channelOsprey - 2, sticks Black-back Gull - 1 Fish Crows Horned Grebe - few Sparrow Hawk - 1 Herring Gulls Starlings Blue Heron - few Oystercatcher - 12-15 Ring-bill Gulls E. Mdks 3608 Snowy Egret - 12-15 Black-bellied Plover - 8-10 Laughing Gulls - few Boat-tail Grackl Glossy Ibis - 3 Red-bk Sandpipers - 12's Kittiwake - 2 Song Sparrows. Brant - 12's Least and W. Sandp. - 100's Glaucous-wing Gull-2 Black Ducks Long-bill Dowitcher 2 Common & Forster Terns Red-breasted mergansers Greater Yellow-legs - 3 Purple Marting Apr. 3, 1971 Chincoteague NWR, Virginia - 1010-1130 a.m. Clear, Cool, breezy Pied-billed Grebe - 2 Turkey Vultures - common Starlings 3609 D-c Cormorant - 10 Marsh Hawk - 2 Myrtle Warblers Blue Heron - few Rooster calling from pine woods near marsh! Common Egret - 15 Coot - 10-12 Pine Warbler - 1 Snowy Egret - many Greater Yellow-legs - 6 Boat-tailed Grackles common Glossy Ibis - 2 Lesser Yellow-legs - 10 Cardinal Canada Goose - 100& W & L Sandpipers - 100's Ruf-sided Towhee Whistling Swan - 12's Yellow-shafted Flickers courintg Sharp-tailed Sp. at beachmarsh Snow Goose - 75-100 Tree Swallows Song Sparrow Brant - 12's Barn Swallows Black Ducks - 100's Horned Larks Mallards - few Blue Jays Blue-wing Teal - 12's Fish Crowsn Green-wing Teal - few Brown-headed Nuthatch near parking lot Shovellers - 100's M&Fs Mockingbirds Common Scoter - 25-30 flight north Apr. 3, 1971, Boxiron Landing, Chincoteague Bay, Worcester Co. Md. 120p.m.-135 p.m. Horned Grebe - 4 Spoarrow Hawk - 2 3610 Great Blue Heron - 2 Forester Tern - 15-20 Little Blue Heron - 2 ad, 1 white Yellow-shafted Flicker - 4 Louisiana Heron - 2 Pileated Woodpecker - 1 ahead of car at 20& mph, back and Snowy Egret - 4 forth across road. Boat-tailed Grackles - 12's Apr. 3, 1971, Spence Landing, Chinco. Bay, Worcester Co. Md. Old Squaws - 12& Laughing Gulls - 12-15 Phoebe - 1 NE of Spence 3611 Buffleheads - 6 Forster Terns - 25-30 Loggerhead Shrike - 1 NE of Spence Apr. 3, 1971, Ocean City, Worcester Co. Md. 3-4:30 p.m. EST. Cool, windy, clear. Red-throated Loons - 15-25, no full adults, mostly off entrance to jetties, in ocean. Common Eider - 1 full adult male and ? F's and imms, with: **King Eider - Somateria spectabilis - at least 2 full Ms, 2 imm. males andF and imms. of 3612 both Kings and Commons totalling about 22-25 individuals. Carl Carlson saw too. Red-breasted Mergansers - at least 1 pair. White-wing Scoter - 1 F or imm. Bonaparte Gull - 25-40, mostly in ocean off end of jetties. Sanderling - 1 on beach behind motel. Apr. 3, 1971, Indian River Inlet, Delaware 4:50-5:15 p.m. EST. Common Scoter - 1 3613 Common Merganser - 1 ad M Purple Sandpiper - 30& at end of jetties. Sanderlings -6 with PS's Benapartes and Ring-billed Gulls - few April 3, 1971, Silver Lake, Rehoboth Beach, Delaware - Blue Heron - 1 3614 Canada Goose - 4-500 Black Ducks - 20 Canvasbacks - 200 males and For imm. Ring-billed Gulls - 150-20