Date: 1/5/13 6:25 pm
From: Josh Emm <apistopanchax...>
Subject: [MDBirding] Rock Run CBC - Havre de Grace sector


Hey guys,
Today was the make-up date for the Rock Run CBC in Harford County. It was supposed to be last Saturday, but got snowed out. I have pictures that I will be posting soon, but I can't do it right now. Anyway here is my list of the 70 species (plus one taxon) that were seen today. The bulk of the bird species (and the bulk of the total birds counted) were seen at Swan Harbor Farm.
Prior to birding my sector, I joined Matt Hafner for an hour of owling the darlington area. We got 1 Eastern Screech Owl and 3 Great Horned Owls.
Good birding!
Josh Emm
HdG, MD

1) Canada Goose
2) Tundra Swan
3) American Black Duck
4) Mallard
4+) Mallard (Domestic type (hybrid?))
5) Lesser Scaup
6) Bufflehead
7) Common Goldeneye - all seen from Lapidum; the most frustrating bird of the day. they did not want to show themselves
8) Hooded Merganser
9) Common Merganser - all on the Susquehanna, most from Lapidum
10) Ruddy Duck
11) Pied-billed Grebe
12) Double-crested Cormorant
13) Great Blue Heron
14) Black-crowned Night Heron (imm.)- Tydings Memorial Park
15) Black Vulture
16) Turkey Vulture
17) Northern Harrier
18) Cooper's Hawk
19) Bald Eagle
20) Red-shouldered Hawk
21) Red-tailed Hawk (Eastern)
22) American Coot
23) Killdeer
24) Wilson's Snipe - flushed from the old impoundments at Swan Harbor Farm
25) Bonaparte's Gull
26) Ring-billed Gull
27) Herring Gull
28) Great Black-backed Gull
29) Rock Pigeon
30) Mourning Dove
31) Great Horned Owl - at Swan Harbor Farm, one calling early AM & pair mobbed by flock of AMCR
32) Barred Owl - flushed from loop trail at Swan Harbor Farm(SHF)
33) Belted Kingfisher
34) Red-bellied Woodpecker
35) Downy Woodpecker
36) Hairy Woodpecker
37) Northern (Yellow-shafted) Flicker
38) Pileated Woodpecker - last bird! finally heard at Lapidum after 10.5 solid hours of birding (excluding owling early on with Matt Hafner which made 12 hours for me)
39) Blue Jay
40) American Crow
41) Fish Crow
42) Carolina Chickadee
43) Tufted Titmouse
44) Red-breasted Nuthatch
45) White-breasted Nuthatch
46) Brown Creeper
47) Winter Wren
48) Carolina Wren
49) Golden-crowned Kinglet
50) Eastern Bluebird
51) American Robin
52) Northern Mockingbird
53) European Starling
54) Eastern Towhee
55) American Tree Sparrow - about 10 in first new impoundment at "SHF"
56) Field Sparrow
57) Savannah Sparrow (Eastern)
58) (Red) Fox Sparrow - on loop trail at "SHF", one of the most frustrating birds of the day
59) Song Sparrow
60) Swamp Sparrow
61) White-throated Sparrow
62) White-crowned Sparrow (Eastern)
63) Dark-eyed Junco (Slate-colored)
64) Northern Cardinal
65) Red-winged Blackbird
66) Common Grackle
67) Brown-headed Cowbird
68) House Finch
69) American Goldfinch
70) House Sparrow

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