BOMBAY HOOK NWR WEEKLY WILDLIFE DRIVE CENSUS (not including most passerines)
Date: July 20, 2006 Start time: 6:30 End Time: 10:00 High Tide Mahon ________ Observer     R. Brown    
Wind Spd: 8 mph Wind Dir: N % Cloud Cover:  80     Air Temp    75˚F    
Species Raymond Pool Shearness Pool Bear Swamp Pool Finis Pool Saltmarsh Pool A Big Woods Pond Field Field Field   Total
D-C Cormorant                       0
Great Egret 2 85 15   7 1           110
Snowy Egret 4 29 27   4             64
Cattle Egret                       0
Great Blue Heron 4   14 1 2             21
Little Blue Heron     1                 1
Green Heron             1         1
Black-cr Night-heron                       0
Yellow-cr Night-heron                       0
Glossy Ibis 27 15                   42
Pied-billed Grebe                       0
American Coot                        
Clapper Rail                       0
Canada Goose 8 29 121                 158
Snow Goose                       0
Tundra Swan                       0
Mute Swan                       0
Black Duck                       0
Mallard 4       4             8
Green-winged Teal 26                     26
Blue-winged Teal                       0
Northern Shoveler                       0
Northern Pintail                       0
Gadwall                       0
American Wigeon                       0
Ring-necked Duck                       0
Scaup spp.                       0
Bufflehead                       0
Wood Duck                       0
Ruddy Duck                       0
Hooded Merg.                       0
Common Merg.                       0
Black-necked Stilt     2                 2
American Avocet 3                     3
Yellowlegs, Greater 10 2 12   2             26
Yellowlegs, Lesser 76 4 30                 110
Semipalm. Sandpiper 6 5                   11
Western Sandpiper 5                     5
Least Sandpiper 1 49                   50
Peeps unidentified 1687 2543 374   30             4634
Pectoral Sandpiper                       0
Spotted Sandpiper     1                 1
Willet                       0
Dunlin                       0
Dowitcher spp. 3265 103 249   100             3717
Semipalm. Plover   69 6                 75
Black-bellied Plover                       0
Killdeer                       0
Ring-billed Gull   21                   21
Laughing Gull   8 11                 19
Gr. Black-backed Gull                       0
Herring Gull 2                     2
Forster's Tern 4 70 20                 94
Least Tern     3                 3
Bald Eagle, 2 ad 1 im     2   1             3
Peregrine Falcon                       0
Red-tailed Hawk     3                 3
Northern Harrier                       0
Belted Kingfisher     1                 1
Other Spp. Obs., Comments: t vulture, rn pheasant, n bobwhite, n flicker, mourning dove, E. starling, fish crow, blue jay, ew pewee, e kingbird, acadian flycatcher, purple martin, tree swallow, Carolina wren, marsh wren, yellow-billed cuckoo, g catbird, c waxwing, C. chickadee, eastern titmouse, wood thrush, red-eyed vireo, yellow warbler, c yellowthroat, blue grosbeak, indigo bunting, A. goldfinch, n. cardinal, song sparrow, swamp sparrow, c grackle, rw blackbird, bh cowbird, e towhee.  Small fishkill in Bear Swamp. Total Birds=
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