Date: Sun, 5 Nov 2000 18:48:37 -0800 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Kevin Graff Subject: BBC trip to Horsehead Wetlands Center MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii This is a report of Wildfowl Trust of North America at Horsehead Wetlands Center in Grasonville, Queen Anne's County, Maryland on November 5, 2000. Baltimore Bird Club had a birdwalk earlier today led by Terry Ross and 9 other birders. Birds seen or heard 26 Horned Grebe 2 Double-crested Cormorant 1 Great Blue Heron 6 Mute Swan 80 Canada Goose 212 Mallard 35 American Black Duck 4 Northern Shoveler (flyby) 44 Green-winged Teal 67 Lesser Scaup 12 White-winged Scoter 361 Bufflehead 594 Ruddy Duck 20 Turkey Vulture 3 Black Vulture 2 Bald Eagle (adults) 2 Northern Harrier 2 Sharp-shinned Hawk 1 Red-shouldered Hawk 2 Osprey (very late) 8 Killdeer 12 Ring-billed Gull 1 Herring Gull 1 Great Black-backed Gull 2 Mourning Dove 1 Downy Woodpecker 2 Northern Flicker 3 American Crow 25 crow sp. 12 Carolina Chickadee 4 Carolina Wren 3 Golden-crowned Kinglet 24 Ruby-crowned Kinglet 1 Hermit Thrush 31 American Robin 4 Northern Mockingbird 407 European Starling 28 Cedar Waxwing 300 Yellow-rumped Warbler 1 Eastern Towhee 1 American Pipit (flyby) 2 Song Sparrow 12 White-throated Sparrow 2 "Slate-colored" Junco 6 Northern Cardinal 120 Red-winged Blackbird 7 Common Grackle 5 House Finch 5 American Goldfinch 48 species Additional species in late afternoon during animal patrol with Clinton 332 CANADA GEESE arrived from the day-long trip to the fields miles away; 2 TUNDRA SWANS on the river near the South Meadow; 1 imm. BALD EAGLE at the marshes near the unpaved road split; 1 RED-TAILED HAWKS over the woods south of the parking lot; 1 GREAT HORNED OWL flushed out of the woods at the South Meadow headed toward to its favorite roost at the Piney Point Path around 3:30pm while counted White-tailed Deer during our patrol; 3 FISH CROWS seen and heard over the marshes near the entrance to the parking lot; 1 RED-BREASTED NUTHATCH in flight over the heavy pine trees cover near the road split; 2 FIELD SPARROWS flushed out of the tall weeds almost 5' tall while plowed through it on our golf cart at the South Meadow; 1 SWAMP SPARROW in the marshes at the Canoe Landing where the rafts of Ruddy Ducks were seen this morning. Sorry you guys didn't stay longer to add more birds to our list. Total of 49 on our bird walk and 56 species all day plus some on Rt. 18. A mystery shorebird seen on Rt 18 on the first pond to your left after crossed the old Kent Narrows drawbridge. Looks like a Glossy Ibis by its long curve bill, we didn't get a good look as we drove by around 4pm. Later at 4:45pm on my way to Vet Clinic, stop by the pond again to find it, only saw 1 American Coot, 1 Great Blue Heron, and couple of American Black Ducks. The guy works at the store near the pond told me that he saw a large heron-like bird took off with a curve bill headed toward south as he walk by at 4:15pm and thought it might be a Ibis. Looks like my second record of county list. Kind of late. Kevin Graff Baltimore, MD hawkwatch_21206@yahoo.com __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Thousands of Stores. Millions of Products. All in one Place. http://shopping.yahoo.com/ ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================