Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2000 10:02:16 -0400 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Howard Youth Subject: Layhill Park Bird List Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" By the way, I've kept an informal list of birds I've seen at Layhill Park over the years. A few folks have provided some additions. The list is included here. If anyone has any additions, PLEASE let me know. Thanks very much. Howard Youth hmyouth@erols.com Rockville, MD Layhill Park Bird List So far, this list is mostly of birds I've seen in the park. Birds seen by others in parens ( ). Please let me know if you have, or know of, additions. 1. Common Loon 2. Double-crested Cormorant 3. Great Blue Heron 4. Green Heron 5. Canada Goose 6. Wood Duck 7. Mallard 8. Common Merganser 9. Black Vulture 10. Turkey Vulture 11. Osprey 12. Northern Harrier 13. Sharp-shinned Hawk 14. Cooper's Hawk 15. Red-shouldered Hawk 16. Broad-winged Hawk 17. Red-tailed Hawk 18. American Kestrel 19. Merlin 20. Northern Bobwhite (not recently) 21. (Sora) 22. Killdeer 23. Lesser Yellowlegs 24. Solitary Sandpiper 25. Spotted Sandpiper 26. Ring-billed Gull 27. Rock Dove 28. Mourning Dove 29. Yellow-billed Cuckoo 30. Eastern Screech-Owl 31. Barred Owl 32. Great Horned Owl (probable) 33. (Long-eared Owl) 34. Common Nighthawk 35. Chimney Swift 36. Ruby-throated Hummingbird 37. Belted Kingfisher 38. Red-headed Woodpecker 39. Red-bellied Woodpecker 40. Yellow-bellied Sapsucker 41. Downy Woodpecker 42. Hairy Woodpecker 43. Northern Flicker 44. Pileated Woodpecker 45. Eastern Pewee 46. Acadian Flycatcher 47. Willow Flycatcher 48. Eastern Phoebe 49. Great Crested Flycatcher 50. Eastern Kingbird 51. Purple Martin 52. Tree Swallow 53. Northern Rough-winged Swallow 54. Barn Swallow 55. Blue Jay 56. American Crow 57. Fish Crow 58. Carolina Chickadee 59. Tufted Titmouse 60. Red-breasted Nuthatch 61. White-breasted Nuthatch 62. Brown Creeper 63. Carolina Wren 64. House Wren 65. Winter Wren 66. Sedge Wren 67. Golden-crowned Kinglet 68. Ruby-crowned Kinglet 69. Blue-gray Gnatcatcher 70. Eastern Bluebird 71. Veery 72. Gray-cheeked Thrush 73. Swainson's Thrush 74. Hermit Thrush 75. Wood Thrush 76. American Robin 77. Gray Catbird 78. Northern Mockingbird 79. Brown Thrasher 80. Cedar Waxwing 81. European Starling 82. White-eyed Vireo 83. Blue-headed Vireo 84. Yellow-throated Vireo 85. Warbling Vireo 86. Philadelphia Vireo 87. Red-eyed Vireo 88. Blue-winged Warbler 89. Golden-winged Warbler 90. Tennessee Warbler 91. Nashville Warbler 92. Northern Parula Warbler 93. Yellow Warbler 94. Chestnut-sided Warbler 95. Magnolia Warbler 96. Black-throated Blue Warbler 97. Yellow-rumped Warbler 98. Black-throated Green Warbler 99. Blackburnian Warbler 100. Prairie Warbler 101. Palm Warbler 102. Bay-breasted Warbler 103. Blackpoll Warbler 104. Black-and-white Warbler 105. American Redstart 106. Worm-eating Warbler 107. Ovenbird 108. Northern Waterthrush 109. Louisiana Waterthrush 110. Kentucky Warbler 111. Mourning Warbler 112. Common Yellowthroat 113. Wilson's Warbler 114. Canada Warbler 115. Yellow-breasted Chat 116. Scarlet Tanager 117. Northern Cardinal 118. Rose-breasted Grosbeak 119. Indigo Bunting 120. Eastern Towhee 121. American Tree Sparrow 122. Chipping Sparrow 123. Field Sparrow 124. (Vesper Sparrow) 125. Savannah Sparrow 126. Fox Sparrow 127. Song Sparrow 128. Lincoln's Sparrow 129. Swamp Sparrow 130. White-throated Sparrow 131. White-crowned Sparrow 132. Northern Junco 133. Bobolink 134. Red-winged Blackbird 135. Eastern Meadowlark (not recently) 136. Rusty Blackbird 137. Common Grackle 138. Brown-headed Cowbird 139. Orchard Oriole 140. Baltimore Oriole 141. Purple Finch 142. House Finch 143. Pine Siskin 144. American Goldfinch 145. House Sparrow Below are birds I've not yet seen, but probably should be seen, considering available habitat. Of course, there are plenty of other species that could pop up, especially as fly-overs. (In parens, less likely but possible.): 1. Great Egret 2. Black-crowned Night-heron 3. Tundra Swan 4. Bald Eagle 5. (Northen Goshawk) 6. (Peregrine Falcon) 7. Greater Yellowlegs 8. Semipalmated Sandpiper (if drainage pools in right condition) 9. Least Sandpiper (" " ) 10. American Woodcock 11. Common Snipe 12. (Herring Gull) 13. Black-billed Cuckoo 14. Whip-poor-will 15. Olive-sided Flycatcher 16. Yellow-bellied Flycatcher 17. Alder Flycatcher 18. Least Flycatcher 19. Horned Lark (if field conditions right) 20. Bank Swallow 21. Cliff Swallow 22. (Marsh Wren) (in sora field in passage?) 23. Water Pipit (if field conditions right) 24. Orange-crowned Warbler 25. Cape May Warbler (especially in playing field conifers?) 26. Yellow-throated Warbler 27. Pine Warbler 28. Connecticut Warbler 29. Hooded Warbler 30. Blue Grosbeak 31. 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