Re: Harford County Mid-winter Count

David W. Webb (webb@netfox.net)
Mon, 02 Feb 1998 20:55:12 -0800 

Folks,

   Here is another summary from the Harford County Mid-winter
Count....

   Sue Procell and I surveyed Aberdeen Proving Ground in the secure
zone of the Aberdeen Area.  After the lousy weather of the previous
week, the birds must have had cabin fever.  All but one of our
stops turned up something interesting.  Highlights included
an American Woodcock in its display flight (1st sign of spring!),
a flock of 16 Tree Swallows, all 7 woodpeckers including 3 Pileated
and a Red-headed, a flock of 78 Gadwall, a raft of nearly 1100
Ruddy Ducks, 5 meadowlarks, 4 Rusty Blackbirds, and no House
Sparrows.  All told, 71 species.  Here's the totals:

   1 Common Loon                   2 Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
   5 Pied-billed Grebe             6 Downy Woodpecker
   8 Great Blue Heron              8 Hairy Woodpecker
  15 Tundra Swan                  36 Northern Flicker
 422 Canada Goose                  3 Pileated Woodpecker
   1 Wood Duck                    16 Tree Swallow
 143 American Black Duck          31 Blue Jay
 222 Mallard                       4 American Crow
  90 Gadwall                       6 crow (species)
   2 Canvasback                   14 Carolina Chickadee
  54 Lesser Scaup                  9 Tufted Titmouse
5000 scaup (species)               6 White-breasted Nuthatch
   1 Common Goldeneye              3 Brown Creeper
  40 Hooded Merganser              4 Carolina Wren
   6 Common Merganser              1 Winter Wren
  15 Red-breasted Merganser       35 Eastern Bluebird
1097 Ruddy Duck                    5 Hermit Thrush
   2 Black Vulture                52 American Robin
  26 Turkey Vulture                7 Northern Mockingbird
  19 Bald Eagle                   19 Cedar Waxwing
   4 Northern Harrier            498 European Starling
   1 Sharp-shinned Hawk            6 Yellow-rumped Warbler
   2 Red-shouldered Hawk          17 Northern Cardinal
  20 Red-tailed Hawk              20 Eastern Towhee
   4 Killdeer                     24 American Tree Sparrow
   1 American Woodcock             3 Field Sparrow
  89 Bonaparte's Gull             16 Song Sparrow
 145 Ring-billed Gull             72 White-throated Sparrow
   9 Herring Gull                 80 Dark-eyed Junco
  10 Great Black-backed Gull     146 Red-winged Blackbird
  39 Rock Dove                     5 Eastern Meadowlark
  15 Mourning Dove                 4 Rusty Blackbird
   4 Eastern Screech-Owl          76 Common Grackle
   2 Great Horned Owl              7 Brown-headed Cowbird
   4 Belted Kingfisher          5550 blackbird (species)
   1 Red-headed Woodpecker        15 House Finch
  17 Red-bellied Woodpecker        3 American Goldfinch

                          Dave Webb
                          webb@netfox.net
                          Havre de Grace, MD