BOMBAY HOOK NWR WEEKLY WILDLIFE DRIVE CENSUS (doesn't enumerate passerines)
Date: June 29, 2007 Start time: 12:45 End Time: 13:15 Tide           Observer     R. Brown    
Wind Spd: 2 mph Wind Dir: N Cloud Cover:  100%     Air Temp    72˚F    
Species Raymond Pool Shearness Pool Bear Swamp Pool Finis Pool Saltmarsh DU Pond Field 32 Big Woods Pond       Total Other Species Observed, Code to Species Abbreviations
D-C Cormorant                       0
Great Egret 141 24     9             174 CODES COMMON NAMES
Snowy Egret 1 7 3   2             13 AMGO American goldfinch
Cattle Egret                       0 AMRO American robin
Great Blue Heron 22       11 1           34 BASW barn swallow
Little Blue Heron                       0 BHCO brown-headed cowbird
Green Heron     1                 1 BLGR blue grosbeak
Black-cr Night-heron     8                 8 BRTH brown thrasher
Yellow-cr Night-heron     1                 1 CACH Carolina chickadee
Glossy Ibis 1 8     3             12 CARW Carolina wren
Pied-billed Grebe                       0 CLRA clapper rail
American Coot                       0 COGR common grackle
Clapper Rail                       0 COYE common yellowthroat
Canada Goose   5                   5 DOWO downy woodpecker
Snow Goose   1                 1 EAKI eastern kingbird
Tundra Swan                       0 EATI eastern titmouse
Mute Swan                       0 EATO eastern towhee
Black Duck 1                     1 EUST European starling
Mallard 49 3 1                 53 EWPE eastern wood-pewee
Green-winged Teal                       0 FICR fish crow
Blue-winged Teal                       0 GCFL great crested flycatcher
Northern Shoveler                       0 GRCA gray catbird
Northern Pintail                       0 HOLA horned lark
Gadwall                       0 HOWR house wren
American Wigeon                       0 INBU indigo bunting
Ring-necked Duck                       0 MAWR marsh wren
Greater Scaup                       0 MODO mourning dove
HYBRID black/mall                       0 NOCA northern cardinal
Wood Duck                       0 NOFL northern flicker
Ruddy Duck                       0 NOMO northern mockingbird
Hooded Merg.                       0 OROR orchard oriole
Common Merg.                       0 PROW prothonotary warbler
Black-necked Stilt   13 4                 17 PUMA purple martin
American Avocet                       0 RBWO red-bellied woodpecker
Yellowlegs, Greater 1 3                   4 REVI red-eyed vireo
Yellowlegs, Lesser   25                   25 RNPH ring-necked pheasant
Semipalm. Sandpiper                       0 RWBL red-winged blackbird
Western Sandpiper                       0 SCTA scarlet tanager
Least Sandpiper                       0 SESP seaside sparrow
Peeps unidentified                       0 SOSP song sparrow
Pectoral Sandpiper                       0 SWSP swamp sparrow
Spotted Sandpiper                       0 TRSW tree swallow
Dowitcher sp. 4                     4 TUVU turkey vulture
Dunlin                       0 WIFL willow flycatcher
Willet   2 2   2             6 WOTH wood thrush
Semipalm. Plover   2                   2 YBCH yellow-breasted chat
Black-bellied Plover                       0 YBCU yellow-billed cuckoo
Killdeer   1                   1 YEWA yellow warbler
Ring-billed Gull         4             4
Laughing Gull         10             10
Gr. Black-backed Gull                       0
Herring Gull         41             41
Forster's Tern 14   3   16             33
Black Skimmer         1             1
Bald Eagle 2 ad 6 im   1 2   5             8
American Kestrel                       0
Red-tailed Hawk   1                   1
Osprey                       0
Northern Harrier         2             2
Belted Kingfisher                       0
Other Spp. Observed (species key on reverse): SWSP, EWPE, YBCU, YBCH, PUMA, TRSW, COYE, AMGO, SESP, HOWR, COGR, MAWR, RNPH, AMRO, SOSP, RWBL, BLGR, INBU, NOCA, CLRA, NOFL, MODO, REVI, CARW, TUVU, GRCA, BRTH, OROR, EAKI.  Major fishkill in Shearness. Total Birds=
462