Trip to Patuxent NWR

Steve Sanford (tanager@bcpl.net)
Sat, 02 May 1998 21:05:44 -0400


Pete Webb and I spent about 4 hours at the North Tract of Patuxent NWR
today, with lots of personal firsts of the season, including, finally,
both Orioles, Indigo Bunting, and Blue Grosbeak, and Scarlet Tanager,
plus my 2nd Summer Tanager. At one point we drove past a side road and I
glimpsed what was probably a rusty old oil drum, but I just wondered...
I backed up, and it was indeed a displaying male Wild Turkey, tail fully
spread, with a coy hen on the other side of the fence.

A partial list (* = personal first-of-season):

Wood Duck
Hooded Merganser      2
Red-should Hawk
Red-tailed Hawk
Wild Turkey*               2
Spotted Sandpiper        2
E Kingbird                   4
Purple Martin*             1
Tree Swallow               dozens
N Rgh-wng Swallow      5
Barn Swallow
Eastern Bluebird    lots (10-15)
Wood Thrush
Gray Catbird
White-Eyed Vireo
Yel-thrtd Vireo*           2
Red-Eyed Vireo
Northern Parula
Yellow Warbler           1
Myrtle Warbler
Pine Warbler
Prairie Warbler          lots  10+
Blk & Wt Warbler       3+
American Redstart*     10
Prothonotary Warb      3 (one seen very well near end of west loop road)

Worm-eating Warbler*      1
Ovenbird
Kentucky Warbler *      1
Com Yellowthroat
Hooded Warbler
Yel-brstd Chat           1
Summer Tanager       1
Scarlet Tanager*        1
Blue Grosbeak*         2
Indigo Bunting*         3
Orchard Oriole*         3
Baltimore Oriole*      1

Also, at Milford Mill Park, Balto Co, we had my first Black-thrt Blue
(2) and Chestnut-sided (1) Warblers.

Pete had a Rose-br Grosbeak at a feeder in his yard this morning, but we
didn't get any in the field.


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Steve Sanford
Randallstown MD
tanager@bcpl.net