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Belle Isle Bird List August 13, 2006
Belle Isle Marsh
9 - 10 am, 1:30 - 230 pm (dst)
Ian Davies, Soheil Zendeh
High tide: 3:05 pm
Sky: mostly clear, sunny
Temperature: 70° - 80°F (21° - 26°C)
Wind: w 5 -10 mph (8 - 16 kph)
Visibility: excellent
bird species: 18
dragonfly and damselfly species: 6
butterfly, moth and skipper species: 8
Notes:
This was a slow day bird wise. Part of the reason was that Ian was more than
full-blast into odes (dragonflies and damselflies) and leps (butterflies,
skippers, moths). As a result we did not have the time to bemoan the paucity
of shorebirds. We visited three other shorebird hotspots as well: Point of
Pines, Lynn Beach and the Douglas Street salt pan at Rumney Marsh and found that
only Douglas Street had any concentration of shorebirds. It seems that the cold
front and steady nw and w winds have taken the shorebirds out of here.
The wolf spiders are well advanced in hatching their young. The big mother I
photographed last week was still around and had many young on her as well as
remnants of her egg sack. One other mother seemed to be hatching her young. One
sack was lying by itself under the board. These mothers seem to dig out a space
under the board and then spin an incomplete web around their heads, so the
abdomen and egg sack stick out into the air.
Birds:
American Black Duck 2
Double-crested Cormorant 8
Osprey 1
Semipalmated Plover 2
Killdeer 1
Lesser Yellowlegs 5
Least Sandpiper 8
Short-billed Dowitcher 1
Mourning Dove 5
Chimney Swift 10
Eastern Kingbird 3
Bank Swallow 20
Cliff Swallow 1
Barn Swallow 3
Gray Catbird 4
European Starling 100
Northern Cardinal 2
American Goldfinch 15
Odes: dragonflies:
meadowhawk sp 3
Seaside Dragonlet 2
Spot-winged Glider
Wandering Glider
Common Green Darner
Odes: damselflies:
spreadwing sp
Leps: butterflies:
Cabbage 150
Monarch 2
Eastern Tailed Blue 2
Orange Sulphur 10
Clouded Sulphur 10
Buckeye 1
Leps: moths:
Yellow-collared Scape Moth (see photo)
Soheil Zendeh
42 Baker Ave
Lexington, MA 02421
home phone 781-863-2392
cell phone 617-763-5637
office phone 617-528-4013
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