Baltimore Winter Count
Rick Blom (rblom@blazie.com)
Sun, 18 Jan 1998 21:51:35 -0500
Bob Ringler and I covered the Back River Sewage Treatment Plant on
the Baltimore Winter Count on Saturday, January 17. Bryan Blazie was with
us for 3 1/2 hours. Coverage was from 8:00 a.m. - 3:30 p.m. We covered 5
miles on foot, none by car. Our totals were:
Pied-billed Grebe 4
Great Blue Heron 2
Cormorant sp. 1
Canada Goose 130
Black Duck 2
Mallard 48
American Wigeon 18
Common Merganser 6
Red-breasted Merganser 15
Coopers' Hawk 1 (imm)
Sharp-shinned Hawk 1
Red-shouldered Hawk 2
Red-tailed Hawk 4
Bald Eagle 1 (adult)
American Kestrel 2
Great Black-backed Gull 10
Herring Gull 21
Ring-billed Gull 440
Bonaparte's Gull 250
Belted Kingfisher 2
Northern Flicker 5
Downy Woodpecker 8
Hairy Woodpecker 1
Red-bellied Woodpecker 1
Rock Dove 90
Mourning Dove 31
American Crow 130
Fish Crow 1
Blue Jay 5
Winter Wren 4
Carolina Wren 18
Golden-crowned Kinglet 3
Ruby-crowned Kinglet 6
Carolina Chickadee 27
Tufted Titmouse 2
Red-breasted Nuthatch 1
American Robin 2
Brown Thrasher 1
Northern Mockingbird 4
European Starling 750
Yellow-rumped Warbler 8 (Myrtle)
YELLOW-BREASTED CHAT 1 (male)
Brown-headed Cowbird 45
Red-winged Blackbird 160
Eastern Meadowlark 22
Fox Sparrow 4
Swamp Sparrow 11
Song Sparrow 79
White-throated Sparrow 70
Tree Sparrow 7
Dark-eyed Junco 6
Northern Cardinal 28
House Finch 10
American Goldfinch 8
House Sparrow 12
Rick
"Everywhere I go I'm asked if the university stifles writers. My opinion is
that they don't stifle enough of them. There's many a bestseller that could
have been prevented by a good teacher." Flannery O'Connor
Rick Blom
rblom@blazie.com
Bel Air, Maryland