Today's BBC walk at Loch Raven Reservoir turned up 38 species. Waterfowl are
beginning to increase in numbers and winter resident land bird such as
Golden-crowned Kinglet and Brown Creeper were also seen.

The full list is as follows:

   
 Pied-billed Grebe  10
 Canada Goose  300 
 Wood Duck  1   
 American Wigeon  400
 Mallard  6   
 American Black Duck  4
 Ring-necked Duck  350
 Hooded Merganser  3
 Black Vulture  1  
 Turkey Vulture  3 
 Red-tailed Hawk  5
 American Coot  100
 Ring-billed Gull  1
 Mourning Dove  10 
 Red-bellied Woodpecker  2
 Downy Woodpecker  1
 Northern Flicker  1
 American Crow  8  
 Cedar Waxwing  30 
 Eastern Bluebird  5
 American Robin  30
 Northern Mockingbird  3
 European Starling  20
 White-breasted Nuthatch  3
 Brown Creeper  1  
 Carolina Wren  1  
 Golden-crowned Kinglet  2
 Carolina Chickadee  8
 Tufted Titmouse  6
 American Goldfinch  10
 Song Sparrow  8   
 Swamp Sparrow  1  
 White-throated Sparrow  50
 Dark-eyed Junco  30
 Chipping Sparrow  4
 Eastern Towhee  1 
 Northern Cardinal  5
 Red-winged Blackbird  13

Elliot Kirschbaum
Baltimore, MD