Date: 1/10/13 3:21 pm
From: Edward Boyd <edboyd59...>
Subject: Re: [MDBirding] Harlequin at Ft. Armistead, Redpolls at Ft. Howard and Ft. Smallwood birds


The Crossbills were reported from North Point Park recently, not Fort
Howard. I think there was a single bird reported from Fort Howard about a
week ago, but there were multible birds reported at North Point State Park
over the last couple of days.
Ed Boyd

On Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 5:00 PM, hardenm55 <hardenm55...> wrote:

> 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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