Cecil County Landfill: 12/19/98

Eugene J. Scarpulla (gscarp@erols.com)
Sun, 20 Dec 1998 07:08:39 -0500


This is a report for the Cecil County Landfill in North East, Maryland
for Saturday, December 19, 1998 as part of the Elkton Christmas Bird
Count.

Observers: Rick Blom and Gene Scarpulla
           (2 observers in 1 party)
Limits of Field Work: 0730 - 1600
Total Party hours: 8.5 (all on foot)
Total Party Miles: 0

 Black Vulture               4
 Turkey Vulture              50
 Snow Goose (white morph)    750 (flyover)
 Snow Goose (blue morph)     2 (flyover)
 Canada Goose                25 (flyover)
 Bald Eagle                  1 (immature)
 Cooper's Hawk               1
 Red-tailed Hawk             1 (immature)
 Killdeer                    3
*LAUGHING GULL              *2 (adult winter)
 Ring-billed Gull            800
 Herring Gull                2000
*ICELAND GULL               *3 (first-winter)
*ICELAND/THAYER'S sp.       *1 (first-winter)
*LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULL   *6 (1 third-winter, 5 adult winter)
 Great Black-backed Gull     300
 Northern Flicker            1
 Blue Jay                    2
 American Crow               50
 Fish Crow                   25
 crow sp.                    225
 Tufted Titmouse             1
 Carolina Wren               2
 Northern Mockingbird        1
 European Starling           500
 Field Sparrow               9
 Savannah Sparrow            3
 Song Sparrow                3
 White-throated Sparrow      6
 Northern Cardinal           1
 Red-winged Blackbird        1000 (fly over)
 Common Grackle              4000 (fly over)

Total Species: 29

Gene Scarpulla
Towson, Maryland
gscarp@erols.com