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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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