RBA
* Delaware
* Statewide
* February 10, 2007
* DEST0702.10
* Birds mentioned:
Horned Grebe
Great Cormorant
Great Egret
Tricolored Heron
Northern Shoveler
Ring-necked Duck
Canvasback
Redhead
Bufflehead
Lesser Scaup
Long-tailed Duck
Common Merganser
Hooded Merganser
Ruddy Duck
Bald Eagle
Purple Sandpiper
Ruddy Turnstone
Sandering
Lesser Black-backed Gull
Laughing Gull
RAZORBILL
Short-eared Owl
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
Horned Lark
Marsh Wren
Brown-headed Nuthatch
Brown Creeper
Hermit Thrush
Brown Thrasher
American Pipit
NORTHERN SHRIKE
Field Sparrow
American Tree Sparrow
White-crowned Sparrow
Snow Bunting
Eastern Meadowlark
Birdline Delaware
Date: February 10, 2007
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 Saturday, February 10th, 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.
There's been a HORNED GREBE at the Hoopes
Reservoir, in northern Delaware. I should say
that there was a HORNED GREBE there. Yesterday,
February 9th, the bird found itself rather stuck
in the ice. So stuck that it was caught (in a
net), and then taken (in a car) to a Delaware
beach. It was quite a day for that GREBE, which,
by the way, was found to have been banded - sometime, somewhere in the past.
That HORNED GREBE at the Hoopes Reservoir may
have been the same bird that was six days earlier
along the Red Clay Creek, upstream from Sharpless
Road. It was seen there on February 3rd, with two HOODED MERGANSERS.
Also at the Hoopes Reservoir, with the HORNED
GREBE, on February 8th, were 3 REDHEADS (2 males
& a female), a few HOODED MERGANSERS, and
BUFFLEHEADS, along with the more numerous
RING-NECKED DUCKS and COMMON MERGANSERS.
In central and southern Delaware, these birds have been noted recently:
a large flock of PIPITS on the corn field by the
entrance gate to Bombay Hook Refuge on February 3rd,
also that day, HOODED MERGANSERS at Bear Swamp, Bombay Hook
late in the day, on February 3rd, 2 SHORT-EARED OWLS by Port Mahon Road,
where also a MARSH WREN was heard calling
the previously-reported NORTHERN SHRIKE that has
continued by the road to the headquarters of the
Prime Hook National Wildlife Refuge; it was seen on both February 3rd & 4th
in the area of the Prime Hook headquarters that
day: BROWN CREEPER, WHITE-CROWNED and FIELD
SPARROWS, HERMIT THRUSH, and BROWN THRASHER
at Milton Lake, in south-central Delaware, on February 4th, RING-NECKED DUCKS
at the Seaside Nature Center in the Cape Henlopen
State Park, on February 4th, 2 BROWN-HEADED NUTHATCHES;
over the dunes in the park that day about 20 SNOW
BUNTINGS were seen, and an adult LESSER
BLACK-BACKED GULL was along the shoreline at the point of Cape Henlopen
an adult LAUGHING GULL in Lewes on February 4th, an unusual occurrence
at Silver Lake in Rehoboth on February 5th:
CANVASBACKS and RUDDY DUCKS in good numbers; a few LESSER SCAUP
3 TRICOLORED HERONS just north of the Indian
River Inlet, by the causeway to Burton Island
on the south side of the Indian River inlet, at
the jetty, 3 GREAT CORMORANTS, and a flock of 70
or so SHOREBIRDS of 3 species: PURPLE SANDPIPER,
RUDDY TURNSTONE, and SANDERLING;
offshore, at least 30 LONG-TAILED DUCKS.
Re-visiting a few of the locations just mentioned:
At Silver Lake in Rehoboth on February 7th were a
pair of REDHEADS, and several pairs of SHOVELERS.
At the Indian River Inlet, last Saturday,
February 3rd, a RAZORBILL was seen, about a
hundred yards from the south jetty.
Back in northern Delaware, a YELLOW-BELLIED
SAPSUCKER was seen visiting a yard in Hockessin
on February 1st, and then again on February 4th.
It was observed making holes in an evergreen tree.
By a driver along Route 495, along the Delaware
River, south of Claymont, recently, an adult BALD
EAGLE was noticed, perched on a high pole by the nearby railroad tracks.
BALD EAGLES have been seen at a nest recently by
the Dragon Run Marsh, near Delaware City.
A GREAT EGRET was seen at the Thousand Acre
Marsh, south of Delaware City, and south of the
C&D Canal, on February 4th. An AMERICAN TREE
SPARROW was seen there, along South Dutch Neck Road.
Birds on fields in central Delaware on February 7th included these:
a couple hundred or more HORNED LARKS by Cartanza Road, near Route 9,
a half-dozen PIPITS further north along Route 9, south of Leipsic,
and 4 or 5 MEADOWLARKS by the road into Bombay Hook Refuge.
Until next time, this is Armas Hill, wishing you
good birding, wherever you may be.
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* Delaware
* Statewide
* February 10, 2007
* DEST0702.10
* Birds mentioned:
Horned Grebe
Great Cormorant
Great Egret
Tricolored Heron
Northern Shoveler
Ring-necked Duck
Canvasback
Redhead
Bufflehead
Lesser Scaup
Long-tailed Duck
Common Merganser
Hooded Merganser
Ruddy Duck
Bald Eagle
Purple Sandpiper
Ruddy Turnstone
Sandering
Lesser Black-backed Gull
Laughing Gull
RAZORBILL
Short-eared Owl
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
Horned Lark
Marsh Wren
Brown-headed Nuthatch
Brown Creeper
Hermit Thrush
Brown Thrasher
American Pipit
NORTHERN SHRIKE
Field Sparrow
American Tree Sparrow
White-crowned Sparrow
Snow Bunting
Eastern Meadowlark
Birdline Delaware
Date: February 10, 2007
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 Saturday, February 10th, 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.
There's been a HORNED GREBE at the Hoopes
Reservoir, in northern Delaware. I should say
that there was a HORNED GREBE there. Yesterday,
February 9th, the bird found itself rather stuck
in the ice. So stuck that it was caught (in a
net), and then taken (in a car) to a Delaware
beach. It was quite a day for that GREBE, which,
by the way, was found to have been banded - sometime, somewhere in the past.
That HORNED GREBE at the Hoopes Reservoir may
have been the same bird that was six days earlier
along the Red Clay Creek, upstream from Sharpless
Road. It was seen there on February 3rd, with two HOODED MERGANSERS.
Also at the Hoopes Reservoir, with the HORNED
GREBE, on February 8th, were 3 REDHEADS (2 males
& a female), a few HOODED MERGANSERS, and
BUFFLEHEADS, along with the more numerous
RING-NECKED DUCKS and COMMON MERGANSERS.
In central and southern Delaware, these birds have been noted recently:
a large flock of PIPITS on the corn field by the
entrance gate to Bombay Hook Refuge on February 3rd,
also that day, HOODED MERGANSERS at Bear Swamp, Bombay Hook
late in the day, on February 3rd, 2 SHORT-EARED OWLS by Port Mahon Road,
where also a MARSH WREN was heard calling
the previously-reported NORTHERN SHRIKE that has
continued by the road to the headquarters of the
Prime Hook National Wildlife Refuge; it was seen on both February 3rd & 4th
in the area of the Prime Hook headquarters that
day: BROWN CREEPER, WHITE-CROWNED and FIELD
SPARROWS, HERMIT THRUSH, and BROWN THRASHER
at Milton Lake, in south-central Delaware, on February 4th, RING-NECKED DUCKS
at the Seaside Nature Center in the Cape Henlopen
State Park, on February 4th, 2 BROWN-HEADED NUTHATCHES;
over the dunes in the park that day about 20 SNOW
BUNTINGS were seen, and an adult LESSER
BLACK-BACKED GULL was along the shoreline at the point of Cape Henlopen
an adult LAUGHING GULL in Lewes on February 4th, an unusual occurrence
at Silver Lake in Rehoboth on February 5th:
CANVASBACKS and RUDDY DUCKS in good numbers; a few LESSER SCAUP
3 TRICOLORED HERONS just north of the Indian
River Inlet, by the causeway to Burton Island
on the south side of the Indian River inlet, at
the jetty, 3 GREAT CORMORANTS, and a flock of 70
or so SHOREBIRDS of 3 species: PURPLE SANDPIPER,
RUDDY TURNSTONE, and SANDERLING;
offshore, at least 30 LONG-TAILED DUCKS.
Re-visiting a few of the locations just mentioned:
At Silver Lake in Rehoboth on February 7th were a
pair of REDHEADS, and several pairs of SHOVELERS.
At the Indian River Inlet, last Saturday,
February 3rd, a RAZORBILL was seen, about a
hundred yards from the south jetty.
Back in northern Delaware, a YELLOW-BELLIED
SAPSUCKER was seen visiting a yard in Hockessin
on February 1st, and then again on February 4th.
It was observed making holes in an evergreen tree.
By a driver along Route 495, along the Delaware
River, south of Claymont, recently, an adult BALD
EAGLE was noticed, perched on a high pole by the nearby railroad tracks.
BALD EAGLES have been seen at a nest recently by
the Dragon Run Marsh, near Delaware City.
A GREAT EGRET was seen at the Thousand Acre
Marsh, south of Delaware City, and south of the
C&D Canal, on February 4th. An AMERICAN TREE
SPARROW was seen there, along South Dutch Neck Road.
Birds on fields in central Delaware on February 7th included these:
a couple hundred or more HORNED LARKS by Cartanza Road, near Route 9,
a half-dozen PIPITS further north along Route 9, south of Leipsic,
and 4 or 5 MEADOWLARKS by the road into Bombay Hook Refuge.
Until next time, this is Armas Hill, wishing you
good birding, wherever you may be.
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