Oxbow Lake, Anne Arundel, US-MD
Mar 5, 2013 3:45 PM - 4:30 PM
Protocol: Traveling
0.5 mile(s)
Comments: Jay Sheppard's report. Conditions: thin high clouds, calm winds
mostly, 48 deg. Big news is that the beavers are busy! The lake has come up for the first time since the end of January flood event tore out the dam....lake level has come up not very much, perhaps a few inches so far. Dozens of turtles out sunning themselves, mostly Eastern Painted Turtle, but saw FOY Northern Red-bellied Turtle. FOY Pectoral Sandpiper.
32 species (+1 other taxa)
Canada Goose 8
Wood Duck 4
Gadwall 12
American Wigeon 4
Mallard 65
American Black Duck x Mallard (hybrid) 1
Northern Shoveler 5
Northern Pintail 20
Green-winged Teal 22
Hooded Merganser 6
Great Blue Heron 7
Turkey Vulture 3
Red-shouldered Hawk 3
Killdeer 12
Pectoral Sandpiper 2 FOY.
Wilson's Snipe 14
Ring-billed Gull 35
Herring Gull 1
Mourning Dove 2
Belted Kingfisher 1
Red-bellied Woodpecker 1
Pileated Woodpecker 1
Blue Jay 3
American Crow 3
Fish Crow 5
Winter Wren 1
Ruby-crowned Kinglet 1
American Robin 15
Yellow-rumped Warbler 2
White-throated Sparrow 4
Dark-eyed Junco 9
Northern Cardinal 2
Red-winged Blackbird 35
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Marcy Stutzman
Russett, MD 20724
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