The Bowie CBC was today, January 1, 2013. The preliminary total,
including one count-week-only bird is 101 species. This is the first
time we reached 100 species on this count. Highlights included
1) a remarkable seventeen species of ducks and geese spread out over
the entire count circle, including 1 Snow Goose and 3 Cackling Geese.
2) 1 Merlin at BARC, in an area not accessible to the public
3) 2 Peregrines, both at BARC. One at the dairy farm should be visible
from public roads but if you want to see this species in PG county you
are probably better off hanging out at the Bladensberg Waterfront park.
4) 2 Sandhill Cranes on PWRC in an area not open to the public
5) The continuing Black-capped Chickadee visiting the feeders at the
Patuxent North Tract contact station (count-week only). This species
is rare enough and hard enough to identify that if anyone has a
decent photograph of *this* bird, please let me know since I would like
to include it as documentation.
6) 1 House Wren near Crofton.
7) 1 Pine Warbler in Bowie
8) 1 Lincoln Sparrow on PWRC also in an area not open to the public
9) 77 Crossbills, both species each in both AA and PG counties. The
easiest to find are probably the continuing birds (both species) at the
Patuxent North Tract along the road to Lake Allen.
We missed a few species I expected to record on the count. Redhead (one
was on Lake Artemesia last Friday), Red-headed Woodpecker and Pine
Siskin. If you see these during count week, please let me know.
David Mozurkewich
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