Havre de Grace: Oc. 19, 1997

Rick Blom (rblom@blazie.com)
Sun, 19 Oct 1997 20:38:50 -0400


        I covered the marina at Havre de Grace from 3:10 - 6:00 p.m. Cool,
cloudy, breezy.

Pied-billed Grebe               16
Double-crested Cormorant        30
Great Blue Heron                12
GREAT EGRET                     1 (sitting on flats)
Canada Goose                    750 (500 flyovers)
Mallard                         100+ (many dock mallards)
Northern Shoveler               2
RING-NECKED DUCK                1 (female)
Bald Eagle                      2 (imm)
American Coot                   135
Killdeer                        18
Laughing Gull                   9 (all adults; # high here this late)
Bonaparte's Gull                1
Ring-billed Gull                250 (1 in full juvenile plumage)
Herring Gull                    115 (over 40 in juv/1st winter)
LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULL        1 (1st summer/2nd winter transition)
Great Black-backed Gull         22
Forster's Tern                  125
Mourning Dove                   8
Rock Dove                       16
Belted Kingfisher               1
Red-bellied Woodpecker          1
Tree Swallow                    16
Fish Crow                       7
American Crow                   2
crow sp.                        5
Blue Jay                        4
Ruby-crowned Kinglet            2
Carolina Chickadee              1
Red-breasted Nuthatch           1
European Starling               40
Northern Mockingbird            3
Yellow-rumped Warbler           20
Northern Cardinal               2
Song Sparrow                    3
House Finch                     3
House Sparrow                   100


Rick Blom
rblom@blazie.com
Bel Air, Maryland

"Did St. Francis preach to the birds? Whatever for? If he really liked
birds he would have done better to preach to the cats."
Rebecca West