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May 8, 1937 Up at 4:00 AM with [[Cottum?]], Nelson & [[Uhler?]], to Port Tobacco for bird census. Had a bad day. rainy & cloudy till noon but better in PM. Saw the largest list of birds I ever noted on a Washington field trip. Maryland Yellowthroats were everywhere. The greatest single migration of a species I ever witnessed on a land bird. Woodland, fields, fence rows & bushes fairely erupted yellowthroats [[as?]]approached all day long. 1. Common Loon 4 25. Gr.Yellowlegs 1 2. Great blue Heron 30 26 Least Sandpiper 5 3. Green Heron 3 27. Semipalmated " [[ditto for Sandpiper]] 1 4. B.C. night Heron 2 28 Herring Gull 15 5. Bittern 1 29 Ring billed " [[ditto for Gull]] 10 6. Baldpate 1 30 Laughing " [[ditto for Gull]] 3 7. Blue winged Teal 1 31 Caspian Tern 3 8. Ring necked Duck 2 32 Mourning Dove 15 9. Lesser Scaup 25 33 Barred Owl 1 10 Ruddy 40 34. Whip-poor-will 1 11. Red breasted Merganser 2 35 Nighthawk 1 12. Turkey Buzzard 30 36 Chimney Swift Many 13. Black Vulture 10 37. Ruby tr. Hummer 1 14. E. Red tail Hawk 4 38 Belted Kingfisher 3 15 Red shouldered Hawk 1 39 Flicker 20 16. Osprey 15 40 Red bellied Wdpkr 10 17. Pigeon Hawk 1 41. Yellow " [[ditto for bellied]] Sapsucker 1 18. Sparrow " [[ditto for Hawk]] 1 42. Hairy Woodpkr 1 19. Bob white 15 43 Downy " [[ditto for Woodpkr]] 10 20. Virginia Rail 1 44. Kingbird 75 21. Killdeer 4 45. Crested Flycatcher 10 22. Wilsons Snipe 1 46. Phoebe 5 23. Spotted Sandpiper 10 47 Empidonax sp 2 24. Solitary " [[ditto for Sandpiper 6]] 48 Wood Pewee 2
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