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Northern Shoveler at Oxbow Lake Nature Preserve

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Marcy Stutzman

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Marcy Stutzman

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Mon, 31 Oct 2005 08:22:52 -0500

Recently seen at the Oxbow Lake Nature Preserve (located in the Russett 
Community at the intersection of Hwy 198 and the Baltimore-Washington 
Parkway near Laurel, MD): 

Saturday, 10/22 
Red-bellied Woodpecker 
Northern Flicker 
Canada Geese 
Blue Jay 
Mallard Ducks 
Great Blue Heron 
Carolina Wren 
Red-winged Blackbirds 
Ruby-crowned Kinglet 
Belted Kingfisher 
American Crow 

Thursday, 10/27 
American Kestral 
Carolina Wren 
Northern Flicker 
Blue Jay 
Ruby-crowned Kinglet 

A cloud of Common Grackles (hundreds) moving from tree-to-tree, bush-to-
bush, and covering the ground from the north and continuing along the east 
sides of the Oxbow. It sounded and looked like Alfred Hitchcock's "The 
Birds". When I saw the American Kestral, it was flying within the cloud and 
then departed out of it to a near-by tree stump.

Saturday, 10/29 
Ruddy Ducks 
Pied-billed Grebes 
Mallard Ducks 
Northern Shovelers 
Hooded Merganser 
Canada Geese

Good news! After several months of work with the Russett Community and Anne 
Arundel County, there is now on-street parking (on Oxbow Place) for 
visitors to the preserve. Work is continuing on our effort to get an 
observation platform built that will extend out past the trees from the 
current observation area. The soil survey has been completed and we are 
beginning the topographic survey.

Marcy Stutzman
Russett, MD