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Dorothy Poole, David Walmark and I had a grand outing yesterday. I personally ended the day with 50 species. We started at Summerville Beach where two killdeer were a treat. Another killdeer was seen by David and I at Cherry Hill Beach. Also, along Summerville was a large movement of birds with various numbers of black-capped chickadees, dark-eyed juncos and a few other species at every stop along the road. Roughly 30 black-capped chickadees were observed. Large numbers of yellow-rumped warblers with roughly 43 in the area. We had a black-headed gull off of Summerville Beach. A nice treat were large numbers of horned grebes and even more of red-necked grebes. My count on horned grebes was 25 and red-necked grebes 77. There were a lot of inlets that we could not see in to, so greater numbers than what I have listed were there. We had all three scoter species with 11 white-winged scoters, 10 black socters and 20 surf scoters. A northern harrier was flying over the bay and one red-throated loon was also there. David and I later had another red-throated loon at Cherry Hill Beach. At White Point there were six buffleheads and five northern pintails with one red-winged blackbird female. At West Berlin we had one pied-billed grebe in the marsh area beside the road there. At Eagle Head a surprisingly late red admiral which I got photos of. We also saw three monarchs there and a monarch at one other location in our travels. In terms of odes there were meadowhawks about and one dragonfly that I did not get a good look at. Getting back to Birds off of Andrew's Head there were 146 northern gannets. Off of Cherry Hill Beach I counted 113 northern gannets. In regards to shorebirds at Cherry Hill Beach David and I had 28 sanderlings, 30 black-bellied plovers and four semi-palmated sandpipers. We also saw 12 horned larks, two American Pippits and 40 Lapland Longspurs. A real surprise was a new yard bird, which was a Wilson's snipe, which flew up from beside the little brook that runs through the property, as I got into the car to go to a meeting in the evening. James R. Hirtle Dublin Shore _________________________________________________________________ Experience Live Search from your PC or mobile device today. http://www.live.com/?mkt=en-ca
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