June 4th-7th, Delmarva Weekend, Delaware coast , interior Maryland

(Clapper Rail photo by Sandy Paci @ Chincoteague NWR)

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Leader : Peter Dorosh

date = 6/4/10-6/7/10
site = Delmarva Weekend: Delaware coast and Maryland ( and briefly Virginia)
observers = Brooklyn Bird Club

130 species

Loon species
Northern Gannet Ferry ride
Double-crested Cormorant
Snowy Egret
Little Blue Heron
Black-crowned Night-Heron
Green Heron
Great Egret
Great Blue Heron
Cattle Egret Chincoteague NWR
Tricolored Heron Chincoteague NWR
Glossy Ibis
Turkey Vulture
Black Vulture
Gadwall
American Black Duck
Canada Goose
Wood Duck Bombay Hook NWR
Ruddy Duck Bombay Hook NWR
Mute Swan
Mallard
Bald Eagle various locations, notably Blackwater NWR
Red-tailed Hawk
Osprey common
Northern Harrier
Clapper Rail Chincoteague NWR, calling and very cooperatively seen
Piping Plover Cape Henlopen's Gordon's Pond beach
Killdeer
Black-bellied Plover
Semipalmated Plover
American Oystercatcher
Black-necked Stilt Bombay Hook NWR- 12

American Avocet Bombay Hook NWR- 45
Semipalmated Sandpiper abundant
Red Knot Point Mispillion --12
Short-billed Dowitcher
Dunlin
Lesser Yellowlegs
Spotted Sandpiper
White-rumped Sandpiper Blackwater NWR
Willet
Ruddy Turnstone
Greater Yellowlegs
Red-necked Phalarope -breeding female, Gordon's Pond @ Cape Henlopen SP
Wilson's Phalarope Chincoteague NWR, male
Gull-billed Tern
Caspian Tern Chincoteague NWR
Royal Tern
Forster's Tern
Common Tern
Least Tern
Black Skimmer
Ring-billed Gull
Herring Gull
Great Black-backed Gull
Laughing Gull
Rock Pigeon
Mourning Dove
Yellow-billed Cuckoo Bald Cypress trail @ Pocomoke SP Mill Landing area
Chimney Swift
Ruby-throated Hummingbird
Downy Woodpecker
Hairy Woodpecker
Red-headed Woodpecker Blackwater NWR
Red-bellied Woodpecker
Pileated Woodpecker Pocomoke River SP; Great Cypress Swamp
Northern Flicker
Least Flycatcher
Willow Flycatcher Bombay Hook NWR
Great Crested Flycatcher
Eastern Phoebe
Eastern Wood-Pewee
Eastern Kingbird
White-eyed Vireo Nassawango creek crossing
Red-eyed Vireo
American Crow
Blue Jay
Fish Crow
Tree Swallow
Purple Martin Blackwater NWR and other locations
Barn Swallow
Northern Rough-winged Swallow Ferry dock
Tufted Titmouse
Carolina Chickadee
Brown-headed Nuthatch
White-breasted Nuthatch
House Wren
Carolina Wren
Marsh Wren Bombay Hook NWR
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
American Robin
Eastern Bluebird
Wood Thrush
Gray Catbird
Brown Thrasher
Northern Mockingbird
European Starling
Cedar Waxwing
Prairie Warbler
Kentucky Warbler calling, Nassawango Creek crossing
Worm-eating Warbler Pocomoke River Bald Cypress Trail;Great Cypress Swamp
Yellow Warbler
Yellow-throated Warbler Great Cypress Swamp aka "Pocomoke Swamp"
Black-and-white Warbler
Ovenbird common, calling
Common Yellowthroat
Prothonotary Warbler Nassawango Creek crossing , several spots
Louisiana Waterthrush Great Cypress Swamp
Yellow-breasted Chat EA Vaughan WMA; calling and seen well male
Northern Parula
Summer Tanager several locations, Nassawango Creek first.
Chipping Sparrow
Song Sparrow
Saltmarsh Sharp-tailed Sparrow Point Mispillion
Seaside Sparrow Point Mispillion
Field Sparrow
Eastern Towhee
Rose-breasted Grosbeak
Northern Cardinal
Indigo Bunting common
Blue Grosbeak several locations, Gordon's Pond first
Boat-tailed Grackle
Red-winged Blackbird
Orchard Oriole common
Common Grackle
Eastern Meadowlark Blackwater NWR
Brown-headed Cowbird
House Finch
American Goldfinch
House Sparrow

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Locations ( in order of visit): Cape May -Lewes Ferry ride, Cape Henlopen Gordon's Pond,Delaware Seashore State Park ( Burton's Island Sanctuary), Nanticoke River WMA, Blackwater NWR, Pocomoke River's Mill Landing Area, EA Vaughan WMA, Chincoteague NWR, Great Cypress Swamp aka "Pocomoke Swamp", Point Mispillion/Slaughter Beach, Bombay Hook NWR