Date: 8/23/12 4:38 am
From: Sean McCandless <seanmccandless1...>
Subject: [MDBirding] eBird Report - Elkton Marsh/Elk River Park, Aug 22, 2012


I believe there were more Bobolinks than I reported. I am concerned about
double counting. The wild rice has gone wild!
A female Green winged Teal was mixed in with some Mallards as well. 1st one
of the season in there for me.


> Elkton Marsh, Cecil, US-MD
> Aug 22, 2012 6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
> Protocol: Traveling
> 1.0 mile(s)
> Comments: Kayak Birding
> 33 species
>
> Wood Duck 8
> American Black Duck 5
> Mallard 20
> Green-winged Teal 1 Small duck jumped up with 6 Mallards. Half the
> size of the mallards. It had a noticable green patch on the wing
> (irdescent), buffy brownsih colored back and when it turned it had a white
> patch on the belly.
> Great Blue Heron 5
> Great Egret 3
> Black Vulture 6
> Sora 5 Have photographs.
> Semipalmated Sandpiper 15
> Least Sandpiper 20
> Ring-billed Gull 9
> Caspian Tern 2
> Forster's Tern 4
> Chimney Swift 2
> Ruby-throated Hummingbird 1
> Eastern Wood-Pewee 1
> Eastern Phoebe 1
> Great Crested Flycatcher 1
> Eastern Kingbird 6
> Purple Martin 10
> Tree Swallow 4
> Barn Swallow 18
> Carolina Wren 2
> Gray Catbird 1
> Northern Mockingbird 1
> Common Yellowthroat 2
> Song Sparrow 1
> Northern Cardinal 1
> Blue Grosbeak 3
> Bobolink 60
> Red-winged Blackbird 370
> Common Grackle 5
> American Goldfinch 1
>
> This report was generated automatically by eBird v3 (http://ebird.org)

Sean McCandless
Elkton MD

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