Hot Spots for Red Knots
| Trip leader, Recorder, & Photographer: Kurt Schwars | Date of trip: May 25, 2025 |
| Location: Eastern Shore of Maryland & Delaware | Number attending: 9 |
| Details: The day was mostly sunny, and pleasantly warm. A breeze of 10-15 mph kept the insects at bay except one place in a wind shadow did have biting no-see-ums. Our first stop was Bombay Hook NWR. We had 59 species, nothing very remarkable save an escaped Black Swan. Two different Marsh Wrens put on a nice show, and a flock of 41 American Avocets was a nice treat. We did not locate the Lark Sparrow nor Mourning Warblers reported the day before. And after we left, a Hudsonian Godwit was sighted. Port Mahon Road was unremarkable. The harbor at DuPont Nature Center was full of shorebirds, mostly Ruddy Turnstone and Dunlin. We did see a few Red Knots, unlike last year. Unfortunately, no American Oystercatchers chose to show themselves while we were there. Prime Hook Beach Road yielded delightful Least Terns, but nothing out of the ordinary. Broadkill Beach Road has not been productive in recent years. On the north side were distant shorebirds, but heat shimmer made it impossible to try and identify them. |
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2 Snow Goose
21 Canada Goose
21 Mute Swan
7 Mallard
6 American Black Duck
4 Ruddy Duck
6 Clapper Rail
42 Black-necked Stilt
41 American Avocet
1 American Oystercatcher
106 Black-bellied Plover
110 Semipalmated Plover
131 Short-billed Dowitcher
7 Willet
5 Greater Yellowlegs
300 Ruddy Turnstone
8 Red Knot
852 Dunlin
656 Semipalmated Sandpiper
27 Laughing Gull
7 Ring-billed Gull
7 Great Black-backed Gull
1 Black Skimmer
2 Least Tern
5 Forster’s Tern
2 Double-crested Cormorant
6 Snowy Egret
3 Great Egret
18 Great Blue Heron
3 Turkey Vulture
5 Osprey
3 Bald Eagle
1 Red-bellied Woodpecker
1 Northern Flicker
1 Eastern Wood-Pewee
3 Willow Flycatcher
1 Great Crested Flycatcher
3 Eastern Kingbird
4 White-eyed Vireo
5 Red-eyed Vireo
1 Blue Jay
2 Fish Crow
3 Bank Swallow
28 Tree Swallow
45 Purple Martin
17 Barn Swallow
3 Northern House Wren
18 Marsh Wren
36 Carolina Wren
7 European Starling
8 Gray Catbird
4 Brown Thrasher
4 Northern Mockingbird
1 Eastern Bluebird
4 American Robin
6 House Sparrow
3 House Finch
8 American Goldfinch
3 Field Sparrow
8 Seaside Sparrow
2 Song Sparrow
2 Eastern Towhee
5 Orchard Oriole
56 Red-winged Blackbird
1 Common Grackle
2 Boat-tailed Grackle
1 Ovenbird
12 Common Yellowthroat
12 Yellow Warbler
4 Northern Cardinal
3 Blue Grosbeak
4 Indigo Bunting
116 peep sp.
Exotic Escapee: 1 Black Swan