Horsehead birding

Geoff Graff (ggraff@erols.com)
Tue, 05 May 1998 23:40:49 -0400


Today 5/5, at Wildfowl Trust of North America at Horsehead Wetlands 
Center south of Grasonville in Queen's Anne County, an unusual warbler 
that never been reported there before is an GOLDEN-WINGED WARBLER was 
seen and heard near the entrance to Marshy Creek Trail.

Other birds seen:

  1  Double-crested Cormorant
  4  Great Blue Heron
  4  Great Egret
 25  Snowy Egret
  4  Green-backed Heron
  1  Glossy Ibis
  6  Mute Swan
  1  Snow Goose
 59  Canada Goose
 54  Mallard
  4  Am. Black Duck
  5  Wood Duck
  3  Blue-winged Teal
  2  Northern Shoveler
  1  Lesser Scaup
  1  Common Goldeneye
102  Ruddy Duck
  5  Turkey Vulture
  2  Black Vulture
  4  Osprey
  1  Bald Eagle
  1  Cooper's Hawk
  1  N. Bobwhite
  7  Wild Turkey
  1  Killdeer
  1  Greater Yellowleg
  3  Lesser Yellowleg
  4  Solitary Sandpiper
  2  Spotted Sandpiper
  9  Least Sandpiper
  1  Laughing Gull
  3  Ring-billed Gull
  2  Herring Gull
  1  Great Black-backed Gull
  3  Common Tern
  1  Forster's Tern
  5  Least Tern
 13  Mourning Dove
  3  Great Horned Owl - 2 adult near meadow and 1 fledged in Piney Point
  1  Downy Woodpecker
  5  Northern Flicker
 46  Tree Swallow
 23  Barn Swallow
  7  Blue Jay
 33  Am. Crow
  6  Fish Crow
  4  Carolina Chickadee
  2  Carolina Wren
  2  House Wren - near complete nest in Bluebird's nestbox
  1  Marsh Wren
  2  Eastern Bluebbird
 11  Am. Robin
  2  Gray Catbird
  6  N. Mockingbird
 28  European Starling
  1  Yellow Warbler
  8  Common Yellowthroat
  1  Golden-winged Warbler
  8  N. Cardinal
  3  Eastern Towhee
  4  Field Sparrow
  3  Seaside Sparrow
  3  Song Sparrow
 10  Swamp Sparrow
 59  Red-winged Blackbird
  2  Eastern Meadowlark
 58  Common Grackle
 20  Brown-headed Cowbird
  3  House Finch
 22  Am. Goldfinch
  1  House Sparrow


  Kevin Graff - volunteer - director of bluebird monitor program,       
                director of bird recording and wild animal rescue at
                Horsehead Wetlands Center

  Baltimore, MD 
  ggraff@erols.com