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GREATER WHITE-FRONTED GOOSE Snow Goose ROSS'S GOOSE Cackling Goose Tundra Swan American Widgeon EURASIAN WIDGEON Canvasback Lesser Scaup Surf Scoter Common Eiders Long-tailed Duck Hooded Merganser Red-breasted Merganser Ruddy Duck Red-throated Loon Common Loon Pied-billed Grebe Northern Gannet Double-crested Cormorant Great Cormorant American Bittern Great Egret Bald Eagle Northern Harrier Sharp-shinned Hawk Cooper's Hawk |
Peregrine Falcon Killdeer Black-necked Stilt American Avocet Greater Yellowlegs Lesser Yellowlegs Marbled Godwit Ruddy Turnstone Least Sandpiper Purple Sandpiper Long-billed Dowitcher Wilson's Snipe Bonaparte's Gull Lesser Black-backed Gull Forster's Tern Eastern Screech Owl Great Horned Owl Rufous Hummingbird Horned Lark Brown-headed Nuthatch Sedge Wren American Pipit Yellow-rumped Warbler American Tree Sparrow White-crowned Sparrow Snow Bunting Rusty Blackbird |
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Birdline Delaware Number: 302-658-2747 [Transcript] For January, Friday the 13th, this is Birdline Delaware from the Delaware Museum of Natural History in Greenville. The Delaware state annual list for 2012 is now up to 147 species this week. At Indian River Inlet, the previously reported pair of female COMMON EIDERS continues to be seen on the north side of the jetty. Also reported this week on the jetty along with the PURPLE SANDPIPERS and RUDDY TURNSTONES was a single LEAST SANDPIPER, new to the state list this year. LONG-TAILED DUCK, SURF SCOTER, GREAT CORMORANT, NORTHERN GANNET, COMMON and RED-THROATED LOON, FORSTER'S TERN, and BONAPARTE'S GULL were also found at the inlet this week. Three LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULLS were seen at Silver Lake in Rehoboth Beach on Saturday afternoon. The big flock of CANVASBACK continues on the lake, joined by 2 drake LESSER SCAUP. HOODED MERGANSER, RUDDY DUCK, and DOUBLE-CRESTED CORMORANT also continue there. The previous reported RUFOUS HUMMINGBIRD found at the Rehoboth Beach Yacht and Country Club has not been seen since last Saturday. An ORANGE-CROWNED WARBLER has been seen infrequently coming to a feeder in Lewis. The feeders at the Seaside Nature Center in Cape Henlopen State Park continue to have several BROWN-HEADED NUTHATCHES and a leucistic HOUSE FINCH. The previous reported 30+ SNOW BUNTINGS continue to be seen drinking water along the athletic field across from the nature center. The SEDGE WREN found on the Christmas count behind Herring Point along the nature trail by the picket fence was again found last weekend. Last week's reported drake EURASIAN WIDGEON was found again this weekend along the Prime Hook Beach Road among a flock of dabblers that included AMERICAN WIDGEON, NORTHERN SHOVELER, GADWALL, and PINTAIL. A few TUNDRA SWANS were also seen there along with AMERICAN AVOCET, GREATER YELLOWLEGS and LONG-BILLED DOWITCHER. Two CACKLING GEESE were seen among SNOW GEESE at Prime Hook Beach. A ROSS'S GOOSE was seen at Broadkill Beach. Also at Prime Hook National Wildlife Refuge were 8 to 10 WOOD DUCK at Draper Road and 6 GREAT EGRETS at the creek along Cods Road. The MARBLED GODWIT returned to Raymond Pool at Bombay Hook National Wildlife Refuge this week. 28 AMERICAN AVOCETS and the lone remaining BLACK-NECKED STILT continue to be seen at the refuge. Four LESSER and 18 GREATER YELLOWLEGS were also reported. A GREATER WHITE-FRONTED GOOSE was found at the refuge on Monday along with 3 PIED-BILLED GREBES. EASTERN SCREECH OWLS can be found at in several wood duck boxes along the auto tour. WHIT-CROWNED SPARROWS continue to be seen at the refuge visitor center. An AMERICAN BITTERN was seen hunting along the road to Tony Florio's at Woodland Beach Wildlife Management Area. Also reported there was 2 WILSON'S SNIPE. Over 50,000 SNOW GEESE were on the Delaware Bay at Kitts Hummock south of Dover. GREAT EGRET, RED-BREASTED MERGANSER and 2 BONAPARTE'S GULLS were found at the Logan Lane tract along the Kitts Hummock Road. A flock of about two dozen RUSTY BLACKBIRDS were reported in Camden, Delaware along the Isaac Branch in Brecknock Park. 55 HORNED LARK were found along Cartanza Road near Little Creek on Saturday. AMERICAN PIPITS and 70 KILLDEER were found in fields around Oak Grove near Seaford in Sussex County. Also reported there were AMERICAN TREE SPARROW, YELLOW-RUMPED WARBLER, and CEDAR WAXWINGS. AMERICAN TREE SPARROW and an immature WHITE-CROWNED SPARROW were reported to the entrance booth to Brandywine Creek State Park. A male NORTHERN HARRIER, known as the "Gray Ghost" has been seen recently hunting the fields in front of the nature center. A FOX SPARROW was seen coming to a feeder in Newark. GREAT HORNED OWLS were heard calling in Bear, Delaware. A GREAT BLUE HERON was seen flying over an inland location along Walther's Road in Bear. There have not been many PEREGRINE FALCON reports the season, numbers seen decreased from previous years. But, there were two reports of PEREGRINE this last week: one was on the water control tower of Augustine Creek below Port Penn along Route 9 and the other was on the Osprey platform at Fowler's Beach in Prime Hook. Not many SHARP-SHINNED HAWKS have also been reported, but COOPER'S HAWKS were reported coming to feeders at Brandywine Creek State Park and near Arundel. BALD EAGLES have been getting more common in the state over the last 10 years, but where have all these birds but coming from? A BALD EAGLE that had previously been banded with a satellite transmitter at Merrill Creek Reservoir, across the river from Easton, Pennsylvania has been found moving between Hoopes' Reservoir in northern Delaware and Dragon Run Marsh near Delaware City. This juvenile went from Harrisburg along the Susquehanna River to Delaware City and has traveled up the Brandywine Creek into Chester County. You can find more information at the Merrill Creek web site. Thanks to Joe Sebastiani for that update. Special thanks this week to Andrew Bogush, Joe Russell, Colin Campbell, Frank Rohrbacher, Sue Gruver, Gary and Judy Charles, Marie Gardner, Glen Lovelace, Sharon Lynn, David Fees, Joan Wheeler, Mariann Dolan, Catherine Kubo, Nathan Zalik, 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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