Date: 2/22/13 11:41 am
From: Bonnie Ott <Bonnieott...>
Subject: [MDBirding] Ho Co (9 sparrow day and a pellet)


I started the morning with a quick walk around Centennial. The Wilson�s snipe was yet again on the mudflat. Nothing else had changed.

Birded the Howard Conservancy....awesome sparrow day. �Drink your tea� and the beautiful whistled songs of the Fox Sparrows filled the air. A 9 sparrow day!

http://flic.kr/p/dX1aDY

This little pellet was a Junco I believe....anyone want to hazard a guess? It was tiny...half an inch in a grove of cedar trees (I spent an hour crawling around them)

http://flic.kr/p/dWUw5F

Bonnie


Canada Goose 12
Great Blue Heron 1
Black Vulture 3
Turkey Vulture 2
Red-shouldered Hawk 2
Red-tailed Hawk 2
Mourning Dove 9
Red-bellied Woodpecker 2
Downy Woodpecker 4
Hairy Woodpecker 2
Northern Flicker 2
Pileated Woodpecker 1
Blue Jay 4
American Crow 600 flyover in one large long flock at 9 am
Carolina Chickadee 6
Tufted Titmouse 3
White-breasted Nuthatch 3
Winter Wren 1
Carolina Wren 4
Golden-crowned Kinglet 2
Eastern Bluebird 2
American Robin 1
Northern Mockingbird 2
Eastern Towhee 8
American Tree Sparrow 1
Field Sparrow 24 huge flocks of sparrows in 3 main but separate areas. Field in two of the flocks
Savannah Sparrow 6 in goldenrod swale where they have been all winter
Fox Sparrow 9
Song Sparrow 48
Swamp Sparrow 7
White-throated Sparrow 69
White-crowned Sparrow 1
Dark-eyed Junco 70
Northern Cardinal 16
Red-winged Blackbird 4
House Finch 2




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