Today Matt Hafner and I decided to do some birding close to home. We were doing so well, that I decided I was going to make an effort towards doing a big day. I ended up with 78 species on the day. Not too shabby for February. Our efforts put me past the 100 mark in Harford county for the year, and I picked up a life bird (Rusty Blackbird). All this without ever setting foot in Swan Harbor Farm!
Best birds: 1 Greater Scaup - on the Susquehanna, 1 Red-breasted Merg - HdG from one of the marinas, 4 Black-crowned Night-Heron - Tydings Memorial Park, HdG, 1 Eastern Phoebe - Gunpowder S.P. (Joppatowne, Harford), 1 Brown Thrasher - Perryman, and 65+ Rusty Blackbirds at Club House Rd pond in Perryman.
Notable misses: Bullock's Oriole (couldn't just sit around waiting for the bird :-( makes me sad), Rufous Hummingbird (I tried to call Les, but he was busy), Snow Goose (I didn't end up in Jarrettsville), Cackling Goose, Tundra Swan, Northern Harrier, Owls, American Tree Sparrow, Savannah Sparrow, and Pine Siskin (I never ended up at my GF's house where there are 100+ in the am).
1)Canada Goose
2)Mute Swan
3)Gadwall
4)American Wigeon
5)American Black Duck
6)Mallard
7)Northern Pintail
8)Green-winged Teal
9)Ring-necked Duck
10)Greater Scaup
11)Lesser Scaup
12)Bufflehead
13)Common Goldeneye
14)Hooded Merganser
15)Common Merganser
16)Red-breasted Merganser
17)Pied-billed Grebe
18)Double-crested Cormorant
19)Great Blue Heron
20)Black-crowned Night-Heron
21)Black Vulture
22)Turkey Vulture
23)Bald Eagle
24)Sharp-shinned Hawk
25)Red-shouldered Hawk
26)Red-tailed Hawk
27)American Kestrel
28)American Coot
29)Killdeer
30)Ring-billed Gull
31)Herring Gull
32)Great Black-backed Gull
33)Rock Pigeon
34)Mourning Dove
35)Belted Kingfisher
36)Red-bellied Woodpecker
37)Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
38)Downy Woodpecker
39)Hairy Woodpecker
40)Northern Flicker
41)Pileated Woodpecker
42)Eastern Phoebe
43)Blue Jay
44)American Crow
45)Fish Crow
46)Horned Lark
47)Carolina Chickadee
48)Tufted Titmouse
49)Red-breasted Nuthatch
50)White-breasted Nuthatch
51)Brown Creeper
52)Carolina Wren
53)Winter Wren
54)Golden-crowned Kinglet
55)Eastern Bluebird
56)Hermit Thrush
57)American Robin
58)Northern Mockingbird
59)Brown Thrasher
60)European Starling
61)Cedar Waxwing
62)Myrtle Warbler
63)Eastern Towhee
64)Field Sparrow
65)Fox Sparrow
66)Song Sparrow
67)Swamp Sparrow
68)White-throated Sparrow
69)White-crowned Sparrow
70)Dark-eyed Junco
71)Northern Cardinal
72)Red-winged Blackbird
73)Rusty Blackbird
74)Common Grackle
75)Brown-headed Cowbird
76)House Finch
77)American Goldfinch
78)House Sparrow
Josh Emm
HdG, MD
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