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Cackling Goose Snow Goose Gadwall American Wigeon Canvasback Redhead Greater Scaup Ring-necked Duck Surf Scoter Black SCOTER Bufflehead Common Merganser Hooded Merganser Red-Throated Loon Pied-Billed Grebe American Bittern Great Egret Black-Crowned Night Heron Bald Eagle Northern Harrier American Kestrel Peregrine Falcon Clapper Rail American Coot BLACK-NECKED STILT Greater Yellowlegs MARBLED GODWIT SHORT-BILLED DOWITCHER Long-billed Dowitcher Wilson's Snipe American Woodcock Iceland Gull Lesser Black -Backed Gull Eurasian Collared Dove |
Great Horned Owl Barred Owl Short-Eared Owl Red-headed Woodpecker Yellow-Bellied Sapsucker American Pipit Winter Wren Eastern Towhee Salt Marsh Sparrow Seaside Sparrow Fox Sparrow Eastern Meadowlark Rusty Blackbird |
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Birdline Delaware Number: 302-658-2747 [Transcript] For Friday January, 27th, this is Birdline Delaware from the Delaware Museum of Natural History in Greenville. The Delaware state annual list for 2012 is now up to 159 species this week. MARBLED GODWITS and the BLACK-NECKED STILT continue to be seen at Bombay Hook National Wildlife Refuge near Smyrna this week. The STILT was seen feeding at Raymond Pool as it was icing over on the weekend. Also seen were 2 LONG-BILLED DOWITCHERS and 4 GREATER YELLOWLEGS. 10 COMMON MERGANSERS were seen on the bayside at Shearness Pool. PIED-BILLED GREBES, AMERICAN COOT, and WILSON'S SNIPE were seen at Bear Swamp Pool. A BARRED OWL was seen on the back end of Finis Pool sitting on the gate and 2 SHORT-EARED OWLS were seen at the southeast side of Raymond Pool at dusk. A flock of 34 AMERICAN PIPITS were seen along Whitehall Neck Road going to the entrance to the refuge. The REDHEAD continues to be seen at Silver Lake in Rehoboth Beach among the thousands of CANVASBACK there. GREAT EGRETS were seen along Cods Road at Prime Hook National Wildlife Refuge. Three EURASIAN COLLARED DOVES were seen in Selbyville this week. And finally, a RED-HEADED WOODPECKER was found at Redden State Forest off of W. Robbins Rd. Another GREAT EGRET was seen in northern Delaware at the Great Pond in White Clay Preserve off Paper Mill Road near the intersection with Poly Drummond Road. Also seen there were a pair of GADWALL. At the nearby Middle Run Reserve were YELLOW-BELLIED SAPSUCKER, WINTER WREN, and a winter flock of 13 EASTERN TOWHEES. A pair of immature ICELAND GULLS were seen in downtown Wilmington at the Wilmington Organic Recycling Center of Christiana Drive on the south side of the Christiana River. Also in downtown Wilmington, the PEREGRINE FALCONS that nest on the Brandywine Building have been seen starting their courtship rituals. A LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULL was found at Hoopes' Reservoir this weekend along the Route 82 Causeway. Other birds seen at Hoopes' included 3 AMERICAN WIGEON at the Hillside Mill Cove, plus COMMON and HOODED MERGANSER, BUFFLEHEAD, 10 PIED BILLED GREBES, and 300 RING-NECKED DUCK. A flock of 25 RUSTY BLACKBIRDS were seen along the Pickering Beach Road at Little Creek Wildlife Management Area. Also seen there was a FOX SPARROW by the parking lot. The winter raptor survey along Pickering Beach Road missed SHORT-EARED OWL, but did find four BLACK-CROWNED NIGHT HERONS, WILSON'S SNIPE, and a calling GREAT HORNED OWL. A total of 90 HOODED MERGANSERS were seen flying into the refuge. A raft of 250 GREATER SCAUPS were seen on Delaware Bay off the south side of Pickering Beach. 3 to 4 SHORT-EARED OWLS were seen off of Lighthouse Road near Mispillion Inlet east of Milford on the raptor survey. Other birds seen it there included an AMERICAN BITTERN, 2 BLACK-CROWNED NIGHT HERONS, CLAPPER RAIL, and EASTERN MEADOWLARK. Also seen among the spartina grass were SEASIDE and SALT MARSH SPARROWS. The survey also recorded WILSON'S SNIPE at GREAT EGRET at Port Mahon, a big flock of 150 EASTERN MEADOWLARKS and 50,000 COMMON GRACKLES plus SHORT-BILLED DOWITCHER at Kitts Hummock, and an AMERICAN KESTREL, 3 BALD EAGLES, and 3 NORTHERN HARRIERS at Oyster Rocks Road in Prime Hook National Wildlife Refuge. Waterfowl at Big Stone Beach in Milford Neck Wildlife area included about 10 RED-THROATED LOONS and a big flock of scoters. Those scoters included 60-80 SURF and a few BLACK SCOTERS plus a couple of BUFFLEHEADS. Three CACKLING GEESE were seen at Oak Grove in Sussex Co. this weekend, among the big flocks of SNOW GEESE there. Also found besides the calling GREAT HORNED OWLS were AMERICAN WOODCOCK flying by. Special thanks this week to Anthony Gonzon, Chris Bennett, Kitt Heckscher, Derek Stoner, Bill Stewart, Matt Sarver, Kim Steininger, Kevin Oxenrider, Colin Campbell, Nick Bolgiano, Bob Strahorn, Frank Rohrbacher, Sue Gruver, Glen Lovelace, and Lynn Smith for sharing their sightings. Please call your reports to me at 302-792-9591 or email to ednieap@verizon.net. Until next time, good birding! [End Transcript] Birdline Delaware is posted weekly on the Delaware Audubon web site as a public service. It is not created or sponsored by the Delaware Audubon Society.
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