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
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