Good morning at/from Clopper Lake

andrew l rabin (andyrab@wam.umd.edu)
Sun, 22 Mar 1998 19:24:28 -0500 (EST)


  Ospreyers,

   I had an especially nice walk around Clopper Lake in Seneca Creek State
Park (Gaithersburg, MD) this morning and thought some of you who live in
the area would be interested in stopping by.  In the 4 hours I was out I
saw a total of 50 (or 51) species (listed below). 


Pied-billed Grebe
Double Crested Cormorant
Great Blue Herons
Canada Geese (the official bird of Montgomery County)
Mallards (who do a great imitation of Burgess Meredith)
American Wigeons (pair)
Redheads (2 males- near dam)
Ringnecks
Lesser Scaup (a few)
Buffleheads (pair)
Common Mergansers (at least 3)\
Red-breasted Merganser (male)  >
Hooded Merganser (male)       /
Coots
Ring-billed Gulls
Turkey Vultures
Black Vulture
Red-shouldered Hawk (on nest- other side of Longdraft Rd)
Cooper's Hawks (Accipiter vociferous- saw 2 together (a pair?))
Unidentified Raptor (Red-tail?)
Mourning Doves
Kingfishers
Red-bellied Woodpeckers
Downy Woodpeckers
Sapsucker (female)
Flicker
Phoebes (3 or 4, a couple of them singing)
Tree Swallow (first of the year at Clopper for me)
Blue Jays
American Crow
Fish Crow
Titmice
Chickadees
White-breasted Nuthatches
Red-breasted Nuthatches (many)
Brown Creeper
Carolina Wren
Golden-crowned Kinglet (heard only)
Bluebirds
Hermit Thrushes (3)
Mockingbird
Starlings (European)
Yellow-rumped Warblers
Cardinals
Song Sparrow
White-throated Sparrows
Juncos
Grackle
Goldfinches
House Finches (heard only)

2 joggers
0 birders besides me
0 Yellow-billed Loons


Good birding to all!

   
Andy Rabin
Gaithersburg, MD
andyrab@wam.umd.edu