Date: 8/12/12 10:09 am
From: Laura Rinier <armytech021...>
Subject: [MDBirding] Hashawha/Bear Branch Nature Center - Carroll County, MD


After waking up late with good intentions of heading to western MD, I decided to head up to Hashawha/Bear Branch. I haven't been up that way since early Spring. It was quite a different environment since last time being there. Not much singing was going on, but the birds were quite actively feeding. I stuck around the pond area as that's where most of the acitivity was.

Bird's included:

Yellow-Billed Cuckoo(3 of them and they were quite vocal the entire morning I was there)
Wood Ducks
Kingfisher
Barn Swallows
Baltimore Orioles(still actively defending their territories, which I was quite surprised)
Yellow Warblers
Common Yellowthroats
Black-and-White Warblers
Green Herons
Red-Eyed Vireo
Blue-Gray Gnatcatchers

And the usual array of Goldfinches, Robins, Catbirds and Cedar Waxwings.

The highlight was seeing 2 small flocks of Killdeer flying East.


Happy Birding,
Laura Rinier
New Windsor, MD

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