Hi all On Sat May 14 ,05 I counted birds from Queenstown to just
North of Centerville for May Count . Total was 74 species. highlights were
20 Bobolinks in a field west of Centreville . Also I was delighted to find
a pair of Kingfishers Digging out a nesting Burrow in a pile of sandy soil
from a construction project in the town Limts of Centreville in the
business Park off 213 were Food Lion is and next to a Car repair shop. The
male and Female would take turns going to the entrance scape some soil out
from the last dig go in and out of sight . The other would stand guard till
the other came out , then the guard replaced its mate in the entrance and
repeated the scene . The only thing that would have made this a better
sighting would have been if it had been in my Atlas block. Other Bird
highlights
Sat May 14,05 6:00 AM till 8:00 PM
Osprey 25
Bald Eagle 3 adult 1 Immature
Northern Bobwhite 1 calling in the edge of Queenstown
Forester's Tern 1
Least Tern 8
Barred Owl 1 heard late afternoon before storms
Eastern Phoebe 1
Great Creasted Flycatcher 15
Eastern Bluebirds 9
Wood Thrush 15
Robin 63
Gray Catbird 5
Mockingbird 8
Brown Thrasher 3
Ovenbird 3
Common Yellow Throat 5
Yellow Breasted Chat 1 Guess all the migrating warblers were on the
western shore
Summer Tanager 2 males chasing each other some singing also
Scarlet Tanager 8
Red Winged Blackbird 113
Meadowlark 2
Grackle 114
Orchard Oriole 4
It was a good day but a long one
Happy Birding
Danny Poet
Queenstown , Md
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