The boat trip had about ten more species that were not listed here, and I had 86 species total at Patuxent River Park today between 6:30-12:30. this included land birding at Selby's and Mt Calvert in addition to the park headquarters area. I was pleased to have a good show of migrant breeders (including ten of the 11 dependable warbler species that breed here - missed a Prairie, but they are getting very scarce here now and may no longer breed here).
There were NO pass-through migrant songbirds. Well, almost literally, but I actually did have one migrant passerine, a single Yellow-rumped Warbler. It was bizarre. Where are the birds?
I added a few other species elsewhere (my house and a few at the Brown Station Rd landfill when I went to the dump), and had a total of 97 species for 8.5 hrs. (all PG County).
This was the first May count I have ever had here (since 1999) that I did not have a Blackpoll Warbler. This was a huge surprise, as they are often either the most common warbler on teh May count here, or close to it with COYEs, OVENs, and MYWAs (depending on timing).
Very weird May Count!
However, it was a very nice day of birding around here for the May Count. We missed the severe wind or rain (it rained very hard last night), and we had a good diversity of breeders with some great views of birds from the park's tour boat on the river.
Cheers!
Jeff Shenot
Croom MD
On Saturday, May 11, 2013 4:51:10 PM UTC-4, Karen Caruso wrote:
> Patuxent River Park: Jug Bay
>
> May Count
>
> 11 May 2013
>
> Leaders: Greg Kearns, Jeff Shenot
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> Recorder: Karen Caruso
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> 7:30-11:30 am
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> Weather: cloudy, occasional rain, no wind
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> 59 species
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>
>
> Double-crested Cormorant
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> Green Heron
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> Great Blue Heron
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> Canada Goose
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> Wood Duck
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> Mallard
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> Northern Shoveler
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> Blue-winged Teal
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> Turkey Vulture
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> Black Vulture
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> Osprey
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> Northern Harrier
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> Bald Eagle
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> Red-shouldered Hawk
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> Spotted Sandpiper
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> Laughing Gull
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> Forster�s Tern
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> Mourning Dove
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> Yellow-billed Cuckoo
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> Barred Owl
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> Chimney Swift
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> Red-bellied Woodpecker
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> Pileated Woodpecker
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> Acadian Flycatcher
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> Eastern Phoebe
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> Great Crested Flycatcher
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> Eastern Kingbird
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> White-eyed Vireo
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> Red-eyed Vireo
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> Blue Jay
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> American Crow
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> Fish Crow
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> Tree Swallow
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> Rough-winged Swallow
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> Barn Swallow
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> Carolina Chickadee
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> Carolina Wren
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> Marsh Wren
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> Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
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> Wood Thrush
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> Gray Catbird
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> European Starling
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> Prothonotary Warbler
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> Northern Parula Warbler
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> Yellow-rumped Warbler
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> Yellow Warbler
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> Ovenbird
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> Common Yellowthroat
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> Yellow-breasted Chat
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> American Redstart
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> Scarlet Tanager
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> Eastern Towhee
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> Song Sparrow
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> Northern Cardinal
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> Indigo Bunting
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> Red-winged Blackbird
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> Common Grackle
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> Orchard Oriole
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> Baltimore Oriole
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