Fox Island
Geoff Graff (ggraff@erols.com)
Sun, 18 Oct 1998 23:32:07 -0400
Now I'm back. The trip to Fox Island on Virginia line about a mile
south of Maryland line was great, but is cold while sleeping (no
heating). This large house is sitting on the water and has a great view
od sunrise and sunset on both side of the house.
Common Loon - 1
Red-throated Loon - 1
Double-crested Cormorant - 93 (plus several flyby headed south)
Brown Pelican - 132 (some small flocks left for south)
Great Blue Heron - 3 (2 in V-form with 10 Snowy Egret headed south)
Great Egret - 1
Snowy Egret - 2
Canada Goose - 1
Mallard - 2
Am. Black Duck - 4
Lesser Scaup - 25 (in flock headed south)
White-winged Scoter - 7 (flocks of 35, 22, 16, 23, 7 and 8 headed south)
Clapper Rail - 1 (seen on low tide pond on Clump Island, north of Fox)
Black-bellied Plover - 8 (winter plumage in low tide pond at Clump Is.)
Semipalmated Sandpiper - 2 on sandbar at Clump Is.
Greater Yellowleg - 3 on sandbar at Clump Is.
Sanderling - 4 on sandbar at Clump Is.
Western Sandpiper - 3 on sandbar at Clump Is.
Least Sandpiper - 1 on sandbar at Clump Is.
Laughing Gull - 7
Ring-billed Gull - 43
Herring Gull - 72
Great Black-backed Gull - 67
Caspian Tern - 1 on Fri and 2 on Sat.
Royal Tern - 2 flyby on Sat and Sun.
Osprey - 1 on Fri.
N. Harrier - 1
Cooper's Hawk - 1 flyby headed southwest on Sat.
Merlin - 1 flyby
Peregrine Falcon - 1 flyby
C. Flicker - (Clump Is.)
Ruby-crowned Kinglet - 1 (in low bushes at Clump Is.)
Yellow-rumped Warbler - 1 (female landed on pier at Fox Is. on Sat)
"Slate-colored" Junco - 1 (female landed on roof on house at Fox. Is)
Boat-tailed Grackle - 5
Swamp Sparrow - 9
Elliot, you got a nice day for hawk watch at Washington Mon. I was there
last Sept in '97, but got only 17 hawks. Now I'm going back to my
hawkwatch tomorrow.
Kevin Graff
Baltimore, MD
ggraff@erols.com