RBA
* Delaware
* Statewide
* July 31, 2006
* DEST0607.31
* Birds mentioned:
Tricolored Heron
Black-crowned Night-Heron
Yellow-crowned Night-Heron
Least Bittern
Glossy Ibis
WHITE IBIS
Bald Eagle
Clapper Rail
Sora
Common Moorhen
American Oystercatcher
American Avocet
Black-necked Stilt
Greater Yellowlegs
Lesser Yellowlegs
Whimbrel
Upland Sandpiper
CURLEW SANDPIPER
Semipalmated Sandpiper
Western Sandpiper
Least Sandpiper
White-rumped Sandpiper
Stilt Sandpiper
REEVE
Short-billed Dowitcher
Long-billed Dowitcher
Least Tern
Common Tern
Forster's Tern
Royal Tern
SANDWICH TERN
Black Tern
Black Skimmer
Bank Swallow
Marsh Wren
SEDGE WREN
Blue Grosbeak
Grasshopper Sparrow
pelagic trip announcement
Birdline Delaware
Date: July 31, 2006
Number: 302/658-2747
To Report: Armas Hill, 302/529-1876 (VOICE)
302/529-1085 (FAX)
Compiler: Armas Hill
Coverage: Delaware, and southern New Jersey
Transcriber: Risė Hill
For Monday, July 31st, this is Birdline Delaware
- from the Delaware Museum of Natural History,
and supported by a number of regional birders.
I'm Armas Hill, glad to be with you, with bird news of the week:
A bright red CURLEW SANDPIPER was seen at Raymond
Pool, Bombay Hook, in the morning on Sunday, July
30th. At that time, it was best seen from the
sign for Raymond Pool, about midway along the
pool by the dike road. Also with at the time were some STILT SANDPIPERS.
Later that day, the CURLEW SANDPIPER was re-found
along the grassy northern edge of Raymond Pool,
where it was keeping company with a REEVE (or
female RUFF). The two Eurasian birds were seen
keeping close company in that they were observing
flying about together, and then landing together
side by side. For about an hour, they were in the same telescope field of view.
Other birds at Raymond Pool, Bombay Hook, on July 30th, included:
these SHOREBIRDS that were plentiful:
SEMIPALMATED, WESTERN, and LEAST SANDPIPERS,
SHORT-BILLED DOWITCHER, and both YELLOWLEGS,
along with over 125 AVOCETS and about a dozen BLACK-NECKED STILTS.
There were also some LONG-BILLED DOWITCHERS and WHITE-RUMPED SANDPIPERS.
Also at Bombay Hook that day:
3 BLACK TERNS,
both BLACK-CROWNED and YELLOW-CROWNED
NIGHT-HERONS at the north end of Bear Swamp,
adult CLAPPER RAILS with their small all-black chicks,
in the air hundreds of BANK SWALLOWS,
one TRICOLORED HERON, BALD EAGLE, BLUE GROSBEAKS,
and many MARSH WRENS and a few SEDGE WRENS.
1 or 2 SEDGE WRENS were found early in the
morning on Sunday, July 30th at the Ted Harvey
Wildlife Area near Kitts Hummock. The location
was north of the road to the Bay just before the gate.
Also at Ted Harvey, 2 BLACK TERNS were at the North Pond.
Along the Delaware Seacoast, on July 30th in the
morning, at Gordon's Pond, north of Rehoboth
Beach, there were about 60 GLOSSY IBIS, and with
them a single juvenile WHITE IBIS, assumed to be
same bird previously reported a few miles to the
north in the area of Broadkill Beach near the Delaware Bay.
Also at Gordon's Pond that morning, with other
TERNS, there was a pair of SANDWICH TERNS. The
other TERNS were: LEAST, COMMON, FORSTER'S, and
ROYAL, together with BLACK SKIMMERS.
At Mispillion Light, by the Delaware Bay, in the
afternoon on July 29th, 5 CLAPPER RAILS were seen
at once in open view along a channel. 4
OYSTERCATCHERS, and a TRICOLORED HERON were seen near the breakwater.
Further north in Delaware, at the Thousand Acre
Marsh, south of the C&D Canal, on July 29th,
COMMON MOORHEN and LEAST BITTERN were seen.
In south-central Delaware, on July 30th, in a
grassland area near Harrington, a nice number of
GRASSHOPPER SPARROWS were found. Dickcissel and
meadowlarks were not. However, a particularly
nice find was an UPLAND SANDPIPER in a field just off Hunting Quarter Road.
Further south in Delaware, about as far south as
one can be in Delaware, on July 30th, 3 UPLAND
SANDPIPERS were in the area of Oak Grove. As was
a SORA. Both of these species were noted here last week as being in that area.
Noted here last time were 8 WHIMBREL seen at the
Cape Henlopen point on July 27th. On July 29th,
early in the morning, a single WHIMBREL was seen
on the beach about a half-mile south of Herring
Point in the Cape Henlopen State Park. About a
half-hour later, 7 WHIMBREL flew in off of the
ocean and over the dunes in that area toward
Gordon's Pond. That again totalled 8 WHIMBREL.
Gordon's Pond is where, as noted earlier here, 2
SANDWICH TERNS and an immature WHITE IBIS were
seen this past week, on July 30th.
* Delaware
* Statewide
* July 31, 2006
* DEST0607.31
* Birds mentioned:
Tricolored Heron
Black-crowned Night-Heron
Yellow-crowned Night-Heron
Least Bittern
Glossy Ibis
WHITE IBIS
Bald Eagle
Clapper Rail
Sora
Common Moorhen
American Oystercatcher
American Avocet
Black-necked Stilt
Greater Yellowlegs
Lesser Yellowlegs
Whimbrel
Upland Sandpiper
CURLEW SANDPIPER
Semipalmated Sandpiper
Western Sandpiper
Least Sandpiper
White-rumped Sandpiper
Stilt Sandpiper
REEVE
Short-billed Dowitcher
Long-billed Dowitcher
Least Tern
Common Tern
Forster's Tern
Royal Tern
SANDWICH TERN
Black Tern
Black Skimmer
Bank Swallow
Marsh Wren
SEDGE WREN
Blue Grosbeak
Grasshopper Sparrow
pelagic trip announcement
Birdline Delaware
Date: July 31, 2006
Number: 302/658-2747
To Report: Armas Hill, 302/529-1876 (VOICE)
302/529-1085 (FAX)
Compiler: Armas Hill
Coverage: Delaware, and southern New Jersey
Transcriber: Risė Hill
For Monday, July 31st, this is Birdline Delaware
- from the Delaware Museum of Natural History,
and supported by a number of regional birders.
I'm Armas Hill, glad to be with you, with bird news of the week:
A bright red CURLEW SANDPIPER was seen at Raymond
Pool, Bombay Hook, in the morning on Sunday, July
30th. At that time, it was best seen from the
sign for Raymond Pool, about midway along the
pool by the dike road. Also with at the time were some STILT SANDPIPERS.
Later that day, the CURLEW SANDPIPER was re-found
along the grassy northern edge of Raymond Pool,
where it was keeping company with a REEVE (or
female RUFF). The two Eurasian birds were seen
keeping close company in that they were observing
flying about together, and then landing together
side by side. For about an hour, they were in the same telescope field of view.
Other birds at Raymond Pool, Bombay Hook, on July 30th, included:
these SHOREBIRDS that were plentiful:
SEMIPALMATED, WESTERN, and LEAST SANDPIPERS,
SHORT-BILLED DOWITCHER, and both YELLOWLEGS,
along with over 125 AVOCETS and about a dozen BLACK-NECKED STILTS.
There were also some LONG-BILLED DOWITCHERS and WHITE-RUMPED SANDPIPERS.
Also at Bombay Hook that day:
3 BLACK TERNS,
both BLACK-CROWNED and YELLOW-CROWNED
NIGHT-HERONS at the north end of Bear Swamp,
adult CLAPPER RAILS with their small all-black chicks,
in the air hundreds of BANK SWALLOWS,
one TRICOLORED HERON, BALD EAGLE, BLUE GROSBEAKS,
and many MARSH WRENS and a few SEDGE WRENS.
1 or 2 SEDGE WRENS were found early in the
morning on Sunday, July 30th at the Ted Harvey
Wildlife Area near Kitts Hummock. The location
was north of the road to the Bay just before the gate.
Also at Ted Harvey, 2 BLACK TERNS were at the North Pond.
Along the Delaware Seacoast, on July 30th in the
morning, at Gordon's Pond, north of Rehoboth
Beach, there were about 60 GLOSSY IBIS, and with
them a single juvenile WHITE IBIS, assumed to be
same bird previously reported a few miles to the
north in the area of Broadkill Beach near the Delaware Bay.
Also at Gordon's Pond that morning, with other
TERNS, there was a pair of SANDWICH TERNS. The
other TERNS were: LEAST, COMMON, FORSTER'S, and
ROYAL, together with BLACK SKIMMERS.
At Mispillion Light, by the Delaware Bay, in the
afternoon on July 29th, 5 CLAPPER RAILS were seen
at once in open view along a channel. 4
OYSTERCATCHERS, and a TRICOLORED HERON were seen near the breakwater.
Further north in Delaware, at the Thousand Acre
Marsh, south of the C&D Canal, on July 29th,
COMMON MOORHEN and LEAST BITTERN were seen.
In south-central Delaware, on July 30th, in a
grassland area near Harrington, a nice number of
GRASSHOPPER SPARROWS were found. Dickcissel and
meadowlarks were not. However, a particularly
nice find was an UPLAND SANDPIPER in a field just off Hunting Quarter Road.
Further south in Delaware, about as far south as
one can be in Delaware, on July 30th, 3 UPLAND
SANDPIPERS were in the area of Oak Grove. As was
a SORA. Both of these species were noted here last week as being in that area.
Noted here last time were 8 WHIMBREL seen at the
Cape Henlopen point on July 27th. On July 29th,
early in the morning, a single WHIMBREL was seen
on the beach about a half-mile south of Herring
Point in the Cape Henlopen State Park. About a
half-hour later, 7 WHIMBREL flew in off of the
ocean and over the dunes in that area toward
Gordon's Pond. That again totalled 8 WHIMBREL.
Gordon's Pond is where, as noted earlier here, 2
SANDWICH TERNS and an immature WHITE IBIS were
seen this past week, on July 30th.