Date: 1/10/13 2:00 pm
From: hardenm55 <hardenm55...>
Subject: Re: [MDBirding] Harlequin at Ft. Armistead, Redpolls at Ft. Howard and Ft. Smallwood birds


I was at Ft Howard from 0830 to about 1230 and was unable to find the
crossbills.

Monroe Harden
Havre de Grace, MD
On Jan 10, 2013 4:46 PM, "Edward Boyd" <edboyd59...> wrote:

> Hello all,
>
> This morning I drove over to Ft. Howard with Jim Stasz to successfully see
> the reported Common Redpolls there (we had 6 - two nice looking males and 4
> duller birds). These were found along the road about 100 yards back along
> the entrance road from the parking lot feeding with a large group of
> American Goldfinches in the Sweetgum trees. We were unable to relocate the
> Orange-crowned Warbler reported yesterday. We also made a brief attempt for
> the White-winged Crossbills at North Point Park but failed to find them.
>
> I tried on 3 different occasions this week to see the Harlequin Duck below
> the Key Bridge without success. Each time I could see a group of Bufflehead
> near the shoreline of the western shore of the bridge but the Harlequin
> Duck was not with them. I'd usualy see these birds swimming to the left
> north of the bridge to an area not visible from the fort. On the way back
> across the bridge, I suggested to Jim to look in the cove that is on the
> north side of the roadway, around the corner and out of site of the vantage
> points from Fort Armistead. Sure enough, as we came off the bridge there
> was a group of Bufflehead in among some old wooden structures in the water
> in this cove, and the Male Harlequin Duck was among them. Unfortunately,
> there is no place to pull off here to view the birds and certainly if you
> tried to do so the MD Tranportation Authority Police would love to award
> you for doing so with a nice idiot of the day citation.
>
> At Ft. Smallwood, we drove around to the northeast side and parked in the
> lot opposite the marsh and about 1/4 mile from the buildings near the
> shoreline. We got out of the car and the second bird we saw in a Sweetgum
> over the car was the Common Redpoll that has been reported recently. We
> also had good looks at a flock of about 20 White-winged Crossbills that
> were moving around the area, including good stationary looks in some
> sweetgums over the wet areas in the woodland and the Virginia Pines on the
> north side of the flooded woodland. The Redpoll disappeared for a time but
> Dan Haas showed up about 30 minutes after we had arrived and
> after searching for a time, he relocated the bird in another Sweetgum on
> the NE side of the parking area very close to where it was first observed
> by us.
>
> Ed Boyd
> Chestnut Hill Cove, MD
>
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