I visited Fort McHenry this morning 0815-1045 and found the following:
Canada Goose 12
Mallard 9
Lesser Scaup 4
Bufflehead 16
Horned Grebe 2
Double-crested Cormorant 11
Green Heron 1
Turkey Vulture 3
Osprey 5, pair copulating on new nest platform
Kestrel 1
Peregrine 1 cruising
Killdeer 1
Greater Yellowlegs 1
Lesser Yellowlegs 9 flew over
Spotted Sandpiper 2
Ring-billed Gull 14
Herring Gull 5
Great Black-back 2
Mourning Dove 2
Chimney Swift 4
E. Kingbird 1
Tree Swallow 8 nest-building
Blue Jay 15
Fish Crow 2
Ruby-crowned Kinglet 1
Robin 3 nest-building
Catbird 2
Brown Thrasher 3
Pipit heard 1
Starling 20
Yellow-rumped Warbler 1
Yellowthroat 1
Towhee 1
Field Sparrow 1
Savannah Sparrow 1
Seaside Sparrow 1, looked out of place in a sycamore tree; now I know where to find them in Carroll Co.
Song Sparrow 2
Swamp Sparrow 2
White-throated Sparrow 5
Junco 1
Red-winged Blackbird 2
Common Grackle 15 nest-building
Orchard Oriole heard 1
House Finch 1
Goldfinch 4
House Sparrow 8
Bob Ringler
Eldersburg, Md
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