Checklist S20295232

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Owner Ed Hopkins

Effort

Protocol:  Traveling
  • Observers:  1
  • Distance:  2.1 mi

Checklist Comments

I walked out onto the Robert Feldt Marsh looking for marsh sparrows. I got there late, & the bright sunlight washed out the color in the marsh vegetation & made seeing sparrows harder. The water birds were hiding in the islands of marsh vegetation. Occasionally, some would swim out or fly up out of the cover.

Observations

  1. Number observed:  1
  2. Number observed:  20
  3. Number observed:  4
  4. Number observed:  1
  5. Number observed:  2
  6. Number observed:  10
  7. Number observed:  1

    Details

    At the distance, it was a whitish gray bird that was bigger than the nearby Killdeer. It was big headed, short-billed plover. The back & wings had darker mottling with the gray and the under parts were white.

  8. Number observed:  11
  9. Number observed:  1
  10. Number observed:  1
  11. Number observed:  7
  12. Number observed:  1
  13. Number observed:  1
  14. Number observed:  1
  15. Number observed:  1
  16. Number observed:  1
  17. Number observed:  1
  18. Number observed:  1
  19. Number observed:  2
  20. Number observed:  6
  21. new world sparrow sp.

    Number observed:  7

    Details

    probably SAVS, SWSP and/or SOSP types

  22. Number observed:  6