Chincoteague Island ,Virginia weekend

Locations: Bombay Hook NWR (DE), Chincoteague Island NWR, Kiptopeke SP, Eastern Shore NWR, Cape Henlopen SP (DE), Cape May Point SP (NJ)

date = 9/26-9/30/08

leader: Peter Dorosh

 

legend

NWR: National Wildlfe Refuge

SP: State Park

f/o : flyover

 

Common Loon (2 f/o Chincoteague Island bridge)

Brown Pelican (5 Toms Cove,Chincoteague NWR; ~80 sporadic flyby Kiptopeke State Park pier)
Double-crested Cormorant (common)
Great Blue Heron (common)
Great Egret (abundant)
Snowy Egret (abundant)
Little Blue Heron (several various locations)
Tricolored Heron (Chincoteague Island NWR)
Cattle Egret (~19 Chincoteague Island NWR; some on top of the Assateague Ponies)
Green Heron (Chincoteague Island NWR)
Black-crowned Night-Heron (Chincoteague Island NWR)
Glossy Ibis (Chincoteague Island NWR)
Black Vulture (notably at Kiptopeke SP hawk watch, other locations)
Turkey Vulture (abundant)
Snow Goose (Chincoteague Island NWR)
Canada Goose (abundant)
Mute Swan (Cape May)
Gadwall (Cape May)
American Black Duck
Mallard (common)
Northern Shoveler (Chincoteague Island NWR)
Northern Pintail (5 Chincoteague Island NWR; Bombay Hook f/o)
Green-winged Teal (several locations)
Greater Scaup (Chincoteague Island NWR)
Osprey (common)
Bald Eagle (10; 7 Chincoteague Island NWR;1 Eastern Shore NWR;2 Bombay Hook NWR; most adults)
Northern Harrier (several)
Sharp-shinned Hawk (common, Kiptopeke SP hawk watch)
Cooper's Hawk (common)
Red-tailed Hawk
American Kestrel (Kiptopeke SP , and frequently seen)
Merlin (frequently; seen all locations)
Peregrine Falcon (several locations; times seen harassing shorebirds)
Clapper Rail (1 Toms cove,Chincoteague Island NWR;2 Eastern Shore NWR;1 Bombay Hook)
Virginia Rail (heard Marsh trail @ Chincoteague Island NWR)
Black-bellied Plover (common)
Semipalmated Plover (abundant Chincoteague Island NWR;Bombay Hook)
Killdeer (Chincoteague Island NWR;Lewes/Cape May ferry parking lot)
American Oystercatcher
American Avocet (~120 Bombay Hook NWR)
Greater Yellowlegs (abundant all locations)

Lesser Yellowlegs(abundantall locations)
Solitary Sandpiper (Marsh Trail @Chincoteague Island NWR)
Willet (flock; Toms Cove @Chincoteague Island NWR)
Marbled Godwit (9 Toms Cove@Chincoteague Island NWR)
Sanderling(Chincoteague Island NWR)
Semipalmated Sandpiper (common all locations)
Western Sandpiper (Chincoteague Island NWR)
Least Sandpiper (common Chincoteague Island NWR,Bombay Hook NWR)
White-rumped Sandpiper
Pectoral Sandpiper (Bombay Hook NWR;Chincoteague Island NWR)
Stilt Sandpiper (Toms Cove@ Chincoteague Island NWR)
Dowitcher species(Chincoteague Island NWR)
Ring-billed Gull
Herring Gull
Great Black-backed Gull
Caspian Tern (Chincoteague Island NWR; at least 25 different times, spots)

Royal Tern (mostly seen at Chincoteague Island NWR, common)
Forster's Tern (abundant)

Sandwich Tern (2 Toms Cove@ Chincoteague Island NWR)

Black Skimmer (Toms cove @Chincoteague Island NWR)
Rock Pigeon
Mourning Dove
Common Nighthawk (Eastern Shore NWR)
Chimney Swift
Belted Kingfisher (several locations)
Red-headed Woodpecker (3 at Eastern Shore NWR; flying around immature Bald Eagle perched in dead tree)
Red-bellied Woodpecker (Kiptopeke SP , mostly)
Downy Woodpecker
Northern Flicker (frequently seen)
Eastern Wood-Pewee (Sandwich Tern (Chincoteague Island NWR)

Empid "traill's Flycatcher (Cape Henlopen SP)
Eastern Phoebe (several locations)
Great Crested Flycatcher (Cape May Point SP)

Yellow-throated Vireo(2 Kiptopeke SP)
Blue-headed Vireo (Cape May Point State Park)
Red-eyed Vireo (Chincoteague Island NWR; Cape Henlopen SP)
Blue Jay
American Crow
Fish Crow
Tree Swallow (abundant flyovers)
Carolina Chickadee (at least ten Chincoteague Island NWR)
Tufted Titmouse (heard)
Brown-headed Nuthatch (at least 8 Chincoteague Island NWR,good views ; Cape Henlopen SP)
Brown Creeper (Cape Henlopen SP)
Carolina Wren (Chincoteague Island NWR)
House Wren
Golden-crowned Kinglet (Cape Henlopen SP)
Ruby-crowned Kinglet (Chincoteague Island NWR)

Blue-gray Gnatcatcher ( Cape May Point SP)
Eastern Bluebird 4 (Kiptopeke SP,near hawk watch)
Hermit Thrush (Chincoteague Island NWR)
American Robin (abundant)
Gray Catbird (common)
Northern Mockingbird (common)

Brown Thrasher (several locations, mostly Chincoteague Island NWR)
European Starling
Northern Parula (several locations, notably Chincoteague Island NWR)
Magnolia Warbler (Kiptopeke SP; Chincoteague Island NWR)
Black-throated Blue Warbler (Kiptopeke SP; Cape Henlopen SP)
Pine Warbler (Chincoteague Island NWR;Kiptopeke SP)
Palm Warbler (Toms Cove @Chincoteague Island NWR)
Black-and-white Warbler (several)
American Redstart (common)
Ovenbird (2 Cape Henlopen SP)
Common Yellowthroat (several locations, notably Chincoteague Island NWR)
Wilson's Warbler (Cape Henlopen SP)
Savannah Sparrow (common at Bombay Hook NWR; along impoundment dike road grasses)
Song Sparrow
Northern Cardinal
Blue Grosbeak (Black Duck trail @Chincoteague Island NWR)
Indigo Bunting (2 Black Duck Trail@ Chincoteague Island NWR)
Bobolink (several Wildlife SE loop@ Chincoteague Island NWR)
Red-winged Blackbird
Common Grackle
Boat-tailed Grackle
Baltimore Oriole (Chincoteague Island NWR)
American Goldfinch (Chincoteague Island NWR;Cape Henlopen SP)
House Sparrow (Chincoteague Island town;Cape May ferry dock)

 

120 total species

 

Mammals

 

Assateague Pony (est 17)

Delmarva Fox Squirrel (4)

Sika Elk (est 15)

Eastern Cottontail