[MDOsprey] (MDOsprey) Horsehead report
Geoff Graff (ggraff@erols.com)
Wed, 21 Jul 1999 23:15:13 -0400
This is the Wildfowl Trust of North America at Horsehead Wetlands Center
in Grasonville, Queens Anne County, MD report for July 21, 1999.
4 Double-crested Cormorant
1 Great Blue Heron
2 Great Egret
8 Snowy Egret
1 Green-backed Heron
12 Mute Swan
57 Canada Goose
7 Wood Duck (several youngs missing, possible by snapping turtle)
4 Am. Black Duck
53 Mallard
1 Blue-winged teal (drake at Woodland Pond early am)
2 Gadwall (Lake Knapp)
7 Turkey Vulture
4 Black Vulture
13 Osprey (6 ad. & 7 imm.)
1 Bald Eagle (imm. - 2nd)
2 Semipalmated Plover
13 Killdeer
5 Greater Yellowleg
2 Lesser Yellowleg
4 Spotted sandpiper (female seen with two youngs)
8 Semipalmated Sandpiper
15 Least Sandpiper
2 Short-billed Dowitcher
4 Herring Gull
3 Great Black-backed Gull
2 Common Tern
1 Forster's Tern
1 Least Tern
14 Mourning Dove
7 Chimney Swift
1 Downy Woodpecker
1 Great Crested Flycatcher
4 E. Kingbird
7 Tree Swallow
22 Barn Swallow
2 Blue Jay
10 Am. Crow
9 Fish Crow
1 Carolina Wren
2 House Wren
8 Am. Robin
12 Gray Catbird
8 N. Mockingbird
11 European Starling
1 White-eyed Vireo
6 Yellow Warbler
7 C. Yellowthroat
9 N. Cardinal
3 E. Towhee (a pair with young in private land)
1 Chipping Sparrow
5 Field Sparrow (east side meadow)
1 Song Sparrow
4 Swamp Sparrow
43 RW Blackbird
12 C. Grackle
10 BH Cowbird
4 House Finch
29 Am. Goldfinch
A total of 59 species counted from 7am to 1pm, had to leave for work at
animal hospital in Harford County for 2:30pm-7:00pm shift.
Ran into Gail Frantz and other person (I didn't catch her name from BBC)
after my lunch break offground.
I will be going back to Horsehead on August 15 Sunday for full day work
from 6am to 5pm for more survey. Anybody is welcome to come to do some
birding in August as we get a peak of shorebirds.
Kevin Graff (volunteer - Bird Count Survey)
Baltimore, MD
ggraff@erols.com