Date: 9/21/12 6:39 am
From: Birdy26MD <marciastutzman...>
Subject: [MDBirding] Oxbow Lake - Warblers


Jay Sheppard and I have been checking out the Little Patuxent Oxbow Lake Nature Preserve for warblers and have been having a good smattering. No Connecticut yet, but we keep looking. Jay is also checking for rails and sparrows. His list from yesterday is below.

Oxbow Lake, Anne Arundel, US-MD
Sep 20, 2012 10:00 AM - 12:30 PM
Protocol: Traveling
1.0 mile(s)

Comments: Jay Sheppard's report. Conditions: 67-72, mostly clear, wind N-NE
3-10. Went in at Brock Bridge Road access and worked around the north end of the lake, both in the woodland and out in the wetland across the north side of the lake shore...which was amazingly wet! Looking for rails and sparrows with no results aong those lines. 8 whitetailed deer.

37 species (+1 other taxa)

Canada Goose 25
Wood Duck 22
Black Vulture 21
Turkey Vulture 8
Bald Eagle 4
Red-shouldered Hawk 5
Red-tailed Hawk 2
Yellow-billed Cuckoo 1
Belted Kingfisher 1
Red-bellied Woodpecker 3
Downy Woodpecker 3
Northern Flicker 3
Pileated Woodpecker 4
Eastern Wood-Pewee 2
Empidonax sp. 2
Yellow-throated Vireo 1
Red-eyed Vireo 7
Blue Jay 8
Carolina Chickadee 5
Tufted Titmouse 3
White-breasted Nuthatch 2
Carolina Wren 5
American Robin 24
Gray Catbird 4
Cedar Waxwing 4
Common Yellowthroat 4
American Redstart 2
Cape May Warbler 2
Northern Parula 3
Magnolia Warbler 5
Blackburnian Warbler 2
Chestnut-sided Warbler 2
Black-throated Green Warbler 8
Scarlet Tanager 2
Northern Cardinal 5
Indigo Bunting 2
Red-winged Blackbird 35
American Goldfinch 4

This report was generated automatically by eBird v3 (http://ebird.org)

Marcy Stutzman
Russett, MD

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