BOMBAY HOOK NWR WEEKLY WILDLIFE DRIVE CENSUS (doesn't enumerate passerines)
Date: Aug 31, 2007 Start time: 12:09 End Time: 16:15 Tide           Observer     R. Brown    
Wind Spd: 2 mph Wind Dir:  N    Cloud Cover:  30%     Air Temp    87˚F    
Species Raymond Pool Shearness Pool Bear Swamp Pool Finis Pool Saltmarsh DU Pond Big Woods Pond Dutch Neck Area       Total Other Species Observed, Code to Species Abbreviations
D-C Cormorant         13             13
Great Egret   1     5             6 CODES COMMON NAMES
Snowy Egret 1 11     30             42 ACFL Acadian flycatcher
Cattle Egret                       0 AMCR American crow
Great Blue Heron         1             1 AMGO American goldfinch
Little Blue Heron                       0 AMRO American robin
Green Heron                       0 BASW barn swallow
Black-cr Night-heron                       0 BHCO brown-headed cowbird
Yellow-cr Night-heron                       0 BLGR blue grosbeak
Glossy Ibis   2                   2 BLJA blue jay
Pied-billed Grebe                       0 BOBO bobolink
American Coot                       0 BRTH brown thrasher
Clapper Rail                       0 CACH Carolina chickadee
Canada Goose                       0 CARW Carolina wren
Snow Goose                     0 CLRA clapper rail
Tundra Swan                       0 COGR common grackle
Mute Swan                       0 COYE common yellowthroat
Black Duck         1             1 DOWO downy woodpecker
Mallard         4             4 EAKI eastern kingbird
Green-winged Teal 10 4                   14 EATI eastern titmouse
Blue-winged Teal                       0 EATO eastern towhee
Northern Shoveler                       0 ESOW eastern screech owl
Northern Pintail                       0 EUST European starling
Gadwall                       0 EWPE eastern wood-pewee
American Wigeon                       0 FICR fish crow
Ring-necked Duck                       0 GCFL great crested flycatcher
Greater Scaup                       0 GRCA gray catbird
HYBRID black/mall                       0 HOLA horned lark
Wood Duck                       0 HOWR house wren
Ruddy Duck                       0 INBU indigo bunting
Hooded Merg.                       0 MAWR marsh wren
Common Merg.                       0 MODO mourning dove
Black-necked Stilt 1                     1 NOCA northern cardinal
American Avocet 520                     520 NOFL northern flicker
Yellowlegs, Greater 160 20 40   1             221 NOMO northern mockingbird
Yellowlegs, Lesser 239 5 2                 246 OROR orchard oriole
Semipalm. Sandpiper                       0 PROW prothonotary warbler
Western Sandpiper 2 2                   4 PUMA purple martin
Least Sandpiper                       0 RBWO red-bellied woodpecker
Peeps unidentified 6918 28 1321                 8267 REVI red-eyed vireo
MARBLED GODWIT 3 1                   4 RNPH ring-necked pheasant
Spotted Sandpiper                       0 RWBL red-winged blackbird
Dowitcher sp. 1644 40                   1684 SCTA scarlet tanager
Stilt Sandpiper                       0 SESP seaside sparrow
Dunlin                       0 SOSP song sparrow
Semipalm. Plover 1100   634                 1734 SWSP swamp sparrow
Black-bellied Plover 280                     280 TRSW tree swallow
Killdeer     3                 3 TUVU turkey vulture
Ring-billed Gull 1                     1 WIFL willow flycatcher
Laughing Gull 1   8                 9 WOTH wood thrush
Gr. Black-backed Gull                       0 YBCH yellow-breasted chat
Herring Gull                       0 YBCU yellow-billed cuckoo
Forster's Tern 1 2 5                 8 YEWA yellow warbler
Caspian Tern 5 1 2                 8
Bald Eagle  ad 1 im 1                     1
Peregrine Falcon                       0
Red-tailed Hawk                       0
Osprey         4             4
Northern Harrier     1   1             2
Belted Kingfisher                       0
Other Spp. Observed (species key on reverse): TUVU, BASW, AMGO, AWBL, NOMO, GRCA, BRTH, REVI, MODO, CARW, BOBO, EAKI, AMRO, RNPH, NOBO.  Very high tide so few birds on saltwater side.  Front coming in. Total Birds=
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