Date: Tue, 1 May 2001 10:06:19 -0500 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: "George M. Jett" Subject: Charles County Birds Comments: To: SMAS Comments: cc: Marshall , Jlstasz@aol.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Folks Two + hours of morning deck birds for April 28 for my Charles County property. 1 Common Loon 7 Double-crested Cormorants 1 Great Blue Heron 1 Turkey Vultures 4 Canada Geese 2 Wood Duck 1 Killdeer 10 Mourning Dove 2 Whip-poor-will 2 Ruby-throated Hummingbird 4 Red-bellied Woodpeckers 1 female Yellow-bellied Sapsucker - a nice late bird 5 Downy Woodpeckers 2 Northern Flickers 1 singing Phoebe 3 Eastern Kingbirds 1 White-eyed Vireo 1 Red-eyed Vireo 14 Bluejays 6 Common Crow - calling 2 Purple Martins 1 Tree Swallow 2 Barn Swallow 6 Carolina Chickadees 7 Tufted Titmouse 2 White-breasted Nuthatches 2 Carolina Wren 2 Eastern Bluebird 2 American Robin 2 Brown Thrasher 12 European Starlings 1 Chestnut-sided Warbler 5 Yellow-rumped Warbler 2 Pine Warbler 3 Ovenbird 1 Scarlet Tanager 2 Eastern Towhee 2 Chipping Sparrow 6 White-throated Sparrow 6 Northern Cardinals 20 Red-winged Blackbird male 30 Common Grackles 6 Brown-headed Cowbirds 1 male Baltimore Oriole 8 American Goldfinch 6 House Finch On April 30 Gwen and I did some scouting for her Southern Maryland Audubon Society Birdathon scheduled for May 5. We birded from about 7 AM to 11:30 AM on the southwestern side of the county from Durham Church Road down to Nanjemoy and back to La Plata. We did find a nice new shorebird area on Rt. 6 just outside of La Plata. Shorebirds are hard to come by in this county and this location will be checked regularly. Some numbers are approximate. Birds located on this scouting trip were: 30 Great Blue Heron 7 Turkey Vultures 4 Canada Goose 2 Wood Duck 1 Greater Yellowlegs - flying over Hancock Run Road in the forest 5 Lesser Yellowlegs - at the new shorebird location 4 Solitary Sandpipers - ditto 2 Spotted Sandpipers - ditto 6 Least Sandpipers - ditto 1 Rock Dove ~20 Mourning Dove 1 Singing Yellow-billed Cuckoo - Hancock Run Road Barred Owl - flying across Adams Willet Road during the day 1 Ruby-throated Hummingbird - male 4 Red-headed Woodpecker - 1.6 miles south of Liverpool Point Road on Rt. 224. This location is one of the prettiest locations in the state for my money. 6 Red-bellied Woodpecker Downy Woodpecker 3 Hairy Woodpecker 1 Northern Flicker Eastern Phoebe 5 Great-crested Flycatcher 2 Eastern Kingbird 4 White-eyed Vireo 1 Yellow-throated Vireo 1 Blue-headed Vireo - Hancock Run Road many Red-eyed Vireo 1 Bluejay many American Crow 6 Fish Crow - calling 25 Purple Martin 20 Tree Swallow 1 Northern Rough-winged Swallow - Liverpool Point Rd. many Barn Swallow Carolina Chickadee - many Tufted Titmouse - many more lots of Carolina Wren - am I getting tired? 6 Eastern Bluebird 2 (only) Wood Thrush ~20 American Robin 1 Gray Catbird - Baptist Church Road 3 Northern Mockingbird 2 Brown Thrasher ~many European Starlings ~20 Northern Parula Warbler 2 Chestnut-sided Warbler 6 Yellow-rumped Warbler many Pine Warbler lots of Prairie Warbler in many locations ~6 Black and White Warbler ~8 American Redstart 3 Prothonotary Warbler 1 La. Waterthrush 1 Kentucky Warbler - Hancock Run Road 4 Common Yellowthroat 10 Hooded Warbler 1 lovely singing Summer Tanager on Smith Point Road 4 Scarlet Tanager 14 Eastern Towhee 4 Chipping Sparrow 4 Field Sparrow 1 Savannah Sparrow - Hancock Run Road 1 Song Sparrow 20 White-throated Sparrow - Hancock Run Road ~ 10 Northern Cardinal 1 Blue Grosbeak - Baptist Church Road 4 Indigo Bunting Red-winged Blackbird 4 Eastern Meadowlark - Rt. 6 at Hancock Run Road ~100 Common Grackle 4 Brown-headed Cowbird 1 Orchard Oriole 1 Baltimore Oriole - Red-headed Woodpecker spot 4 House Finch American Goldfinch 8 House Sparrow Later that afternoon I had 1 White-breasted Nuthatch, an immature Cooper's Hawk and several Chimney Swifts (soar near the house) in Waldorf. Also, 1 Osprey soaring over the house was a yard year bird. On Friday evening, 4/27, I had a calling Greater Yellowlegs that flew by south of the house. Probably into the wetland about 3/4 of a mile south of the house. Yard bird - #152 Good birding. George ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================