Spent the full day birding yesterday beginning a Terrapin Beach Park where a charity 5K caused Jeff Shenot and I to bird some of the quieter sections of the park resulting in good diversity for this time of year including two Tennessee Warblers, a Nashville, several Black-throated Greens, two Black-throated Blues, several Magnolias, Parulas, a Bay-breasted, and a couple of Blackpolls, Palms (mostly western, a couple Yellow), and at least one Yellow-rump. We also had a female Rose-breasted Grosbeak and a female Scarlet Tanager, a Red-breasted Nuthatch, and a few Ruby-crowned Kinglets, the first ones I've seen this year.
Next we stopped at Ferry Point Park on the other side of Kent Island a picked up a Lincoln's Sparrow, Savannah, and a couple of Blue Grosbeaks. Approx. 30 Caspian Terns were still around as well. We watched two Red Foxes interacting on top of one of the old duck blinds.
Next stop was Adkins Arboretum, where we birded Nancy's Meadow (where last week I had struck out on the previously reported CONW) which was basically dead just after lunch and at first we did not see much except Field Sparrows. However, when we got to the Southeast corner of the meadow where there was bunch of poke berry and a few walnut trees near a blue bird box (you could see a house on Eveland road from here). Jeff was ahead of me and he flushed a bird from the grass into a walnut tree where he was able to get photos. It was an immature Connecticut Warbler. It took a lot of patience but the bird finally resurfaced and I was able to get great looks at it about 20 ft away on a fallen dead branch that had some pokeberry growing through it. Yes! Hard to tell if this was one of the same individuals reported here by Karen and others last week or not but it was apparently in the same vicinity.
From there we headed down to Blackwater NWR where we picked up Brown-headed Nuthatch, the continuing Am. White Pelican, and some shorebirds including a flock of about 20 Pectoral Sandpipers, good numbers of Blue-wing and Green-wing Teal were nice. A lone Mute Swan was not. Lots of Eagles already in the area too. Also saw two Delmarva Fox Squirrels. We ended the day at Shorter's Wharf where we had a Great Horned Owl, two N. Harriers, between 4 - 6 Virginia Rails and a Seaside Sparrow. Full list below.
Good Birding,
Frank Marenghi
Annapolis, MD
Double-crested Cormorant
Am. White Pelican
Great Blue Heron
Great Egret
Snowy Egret
Turkey Vulture
Mute Swan
Canada Goose
Green-winged Teal
American Black Duck
Mallard
Blue-winged Teal
Bald Eagle
Northern Harrier
Accipiter sp.
Red-shouldered Hawk
Red-tailed Hawk
Osprey
Clapper Rail
Virginia Rail
Killdeer
Greater Yellowlegs
Lesser Yellowlegs
Short-billed Dowitcher
Black-bellied Plover
Pectoral Sandpiper
Ring-billed Gull
Herring Gull
Great Black-backed Gull
Laughing Gull
Caspian Tern
Forster's Tern
Rock Pigeon
Mourning Dove
Great-Horned Owl
Chimney Swift
Belted Kingfisher
Red-bellied Woodpecker
Downy Woodpecker
Hairy Woodpecker
Northern Flicker
Pileated Woodpecker
Eastern Wood-Pewee
Eastern Phoebe
Least Flycatcher
Red-eyed Vireo
Blue Jay
Crow sp.
Tree Swallow
Carolina Chickadee
Tufted Titmouse
Ruby-crowned Kinglet
Red-breasted Nuthatch
Brown-headed Nuthatch
House Wren
Carolina Wren
Eastern Bluebird
American Robin
Gray Catbird
Northern Mockingbird
Brown Thrasher
Cedar Waxwing
Common Yellowthroat
American Redstart
Pine Warbler
Black-throated Green Warbler
Northern Parula
Blackpoll Warbler
Black-throated Blue Warbler
Magnolia Warbler
Bay-breasted Warbler
Palm Warbler
Tennessee Warbler
Nashville Warbler
Connecticut Warbler
Yellow-rumped Warbler
Scarlet Tanager
Rose-Breasted Grosbeak
Blue Grosbeak
Indigo Bunting
Eastern Towhee
Chipping Sparrow
Field Sparrow
Savannah Sparrow
Song Sparrow
Lincoln's Sparrow
Seaside Sparrow
Red-winged Blackbird
Eastern Meadowlark
Common Grackle
American Goldfinch
House Sparrow
European Starling
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