BOMBAY HOOK NWR WEEKLY WILDLIFE DRIVE CENSUS (doesn't enumerate passerines)
Date: August 3, 2007 Start time: 7:00 End Time: 10:54 Tide           Observer     R. Brown    
Wind Spd: 3 mph Wind Dir: SW Cloud Cover:  0%     Air Temp    80˚F    
Species Raymond Pool Shearness Pool Bear Swamp Pool Finis Pool Saltmarsh DU Pond Vernal Pool by Field 33 Big Woods Pond       Total Other Species Observed, Code to Species Abbreviations
D-C Cormorant                       0
Great Egret     162 3 17             182 CODES COMMON NAMES
Snowy Egret 5   74 15 35             129 AMGO American goldfinch
Cattle Egret                       0 AMRO American robin
Great Blue Heron     49   1             50 BASW barn swallow
Little Blue Heron                       0 BHCO brown-headed cowbird
Green Heron       1     1         2 BLGR blue grosbeak
Black-cr Night-heron     4                 4 BRTH brown thrasher
Yellow-cr Night-heron                       0 CACH Carolina chickadee
Glossy Ibis 4   54   4             62 CARW Carolina wren
Pied-billed Grebe                       0 CLRA clapper rail
American Coot                       0 COGR common grackle
Clapper Rail                       0 COYE common yellowthroat
Canada Goose     19                 19 DOWO downy woodpecker
Snow Goose                     0 EAKI eastern kingbird
Tundra Swan                       0 EATI eastern titmouse
Mute Swan                       0 EATO eastern towhee
Black Duck 1       29             30 EUST European starling
Mallard 12       17             29 EWPE eastern wood-pewee
Green-winged Teal 37       6             43 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       8               8 NOFL northern flicker
Ruddy Duck                       0 NOMO northern mockingbird
Hooded Merg.                       0 OROR orchard oriole
Common Merg.                       0 PROW prothonotary warbler
Black-necked Stilt     7                 7 PUMA purple martin
American Avocet 22                     22 RBWO red-bellied woodpecker
Yellowlegs, Greater 3 5 16   14             38 REVI red-eyed vireo
Yellowlegs, Lesser 138 2 10   5             155 RNPH ring-necked pheasant
Semipalm. Sandpiper 1                     1 RWBL red-winged blackbird
Western Sandpiper 2                     2 SCTA scarlet tanager
Least Sandpiper   3 20                 23 SESP seaside sparrow
Peeps unidentified 154 3 421   3950             4528 SOSP song sparrow
Pectoral Sandpiper 1   6                 7 SWSP swamp sparrow
Spotted Sandpiper     3                 3 TRSW tree swallow
Dowitcher sp. 855       612             1467 TUVU turkey vulture
Stilt Sandpiper 111 2                   113 WIFL willow flycatcher
Hudsonian Godwit 2                     2 WOTH wood thrush
Semipalm. Plover     10   1             11 YBCH yellow-breasted chat
Black-bellied Plover                       0 YBCU yellow-billed cuckoo
Killdeer   2 2                 4 YEWA yellow warbler
Ring-billed Gull         3             3
Laughing Gull     6   16             22
Gr. Black-backed Gull                       0
Herring Gull 1       9             10
Forster's Tern 2   4   8             14
Caspian Tern     2                 2
Bald Eagle  ad 5 im     3   2             5
American Kestrel                       0
Red-tailed Hawk                       0
Osprey         1             1
Northern Harrier                       0
Belted Kingfisher                       0
Other Spp. Observed (species key on reverse): Small fishkill starting in Bear Swamp.  RNPH, NOBO, BASW, PUMA, BLGR, GRCA, AMGO, CARW, EWPE, SWSP, EATO, EAKI, COYE, NOCA, AMRO, RBWO, YEWA, BRTH, FICR, RWBL, BHCO, INBU, REVI, NOFL, WOTH, BLJA, MAWR, CEDW, CACH, EATI, YBCH Total Birds=
6998