Hi Everybody:
I spent the day in southern MD birding primarily in St. Mary's County, and
then finished at a few locations in Charles then Prince George's Counties.
Here are my highlights...
I started behind the St. Mary's Airport before first daylight on Lawrence
Hayden Rd:
American Woodcock - one "peenting" and several aerial displays
Wild Turkey - 1 heard calling
Gray Catbird (1)
Common Yellowthroat (2)
Grasshopper Sparrow - (2)
Further down the same road I heard Pine Warblers and one Black &
White Warbler
Long Neck Rd.
Grasshopper Sparrow (4)
White-crowned Sparrow (1)
Eastern Meadowlark (4)
Point Lookout State Park - fairly cold and windy with little activity...
Green Heron (1)
American Bittern - I asked and received permission to drive into the
campground and was rewarded with this bird in a partially flooded
campground loop. When I first saw it he had his neck outstretched and bill
pointing upward as though it was trying to hide. The only problem there was
no vegetation whatsoever, just several inches of water in the short grass.
Worm-eating Warbler (1)
Yellow-throated Warbler (1)
On the water I saw 37 Bufflehead (the only ducks), a single Horned
Grebe and 6 Common Loons.
Beachville Rd.- Flying over a"field" of dead logs that had been taken down
and left to rot I saw Barn, Tree, Rough-winged Swallows, Purple Martins and
Chimney Swifts.
Beauvue Ponds (viewed from Abell's Wharf Rd.)
Gadwall (1) - the only duck other than a few mallards
Grasshopper Sparrow (1)
Eastern Meadowlark (1)
On the opposite side of Abell's Wharf Rd.there was a Prairie Warbler
singing.
St. Mary's Sewage Treatment Plant - off of Rosebank Rd. - permission to
walk around the impoundments was given - water levels were quite high
Wild Turkey (1) crossed the road on the drive in
Wood Duck (3)
Wilson's Snipe (1)
Savannah Sparrow (1)
There were at least 6 female Canada Geese on nest and two families of young
with 4 & 7 respectively.
The R.I.B's off of Rt. 236 - also part of the St. Mary Sewage Treatment
Plant (R.I B. stands for Rapid Infiltration Basin) - there are four small
impoundments with various degrees of shallow water in all/part of them.
There was one each of Killdeer, Solitary Sandpiper, Greater and Lesser
Yellowlegs and a Wilson's Snipe. Two Prairie Warblers were also singing.
Chapel Point State Park in Charles County had 2 singing Red-eyed Vireos;
other than that it was very quiet.
I finished in Prince George's County at the Aquasco Farm section of
Patuxent River Park.
Northern Parula (4)
Ovenbird (1)
Scarlet Tanager (1)
It was a nice day to be out; despite the windy and chilly morning the
afternoon warmed up and was very pleasant.
Jim Green
Gaithersburg, MD
work in moderation, BIRD IN EXCESS !!!
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