Hi all,


   Went birding yesterday close to home. Highlight of
the day was a impressive high numbers of Bald Eagles
at Conowingo. I walked down the Lower Susquehanna
Heritage Greenway trail from the parking lot to about
2+ miles one way to count the eagles.  One birder at
the dam told me that the other day he had over 110
eagles along at least two miles stretch of the river. 
Many on rocks.
   Did the eagles count first southward bound, over 2+
miles, then checking out passerines in the woods on
the way back to parking lot. 

730am-9am
Rocks State Park, St. Clair Bridge Rd., Knopp Rd.,
Rocks Chrome Hill Rd., and some trails along Rocks
Rd., Jarrettsville, Harford Co., MD

Weather: Fair, 53-56 degree, calm

   3  Canada Goose
   1  Wood Duck
   1  Mallard
   1  Red-tailed Hawk
   5  Mourning Dove
   1  Red-bellied Woodpecker
   1  Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
   1  Downy Woodpecker
   2  Hairy Woodpecker
   1  Northern Flicker
   1  Pileated Woodpecker
   1  Blue Jay - flyby
   8  American Crow
   4  Carolina Chickadee
   5  Tufted Titmouse
   1  White-breasted Nuthatch
   1  Brown Creeper
   1  Carolina Wren
   2  Ruby-crowned Kinglet
   6  Eastern Bluebird
   1  Northern Mockingbird
  12  European Starling - flyby
   7  Cedar Waxwing
   4  Yellow-rumped Warbler
   1  Field Sparrow
   3  Song Sparrow
  19  White-throated Sparrow
   8  "Slate-colored" Junco
  10  Northern Cardinal
   1  Purple Finch
   8  House Finch
 121  31 species

Mammals
   4  Eastern Gray Squirrel

920am-1030am
Deer Creek Conservation Area, Sandy Hook Rd., Dublin, 
Harford Co., MD

Weather: Fair, 63-64 degree, S 6 mph- SE 9 mph

   3  Turkey Vulture
   1  Bald Eagle - ad. headed E, probably to Conowingo
   2  Red-shouldered Hawk
   1  Downy Woodpecker
   1  Blue Jay
   1  Carolina Chickadee
   4  Tufted Titmouse
  16  European Starling - flyby
  16  Cedar Waxwing - flyby
   2  Eastern Towhee
   2  Savannah Sparrow
   2  Song Sparrow
  34  White-throated Sparrow
   3  "Slate-colored" Junco
   4  Northern Cardinal
   3  Red-winged Blackbird - w/ grackles
  36  Common Grackle - flyby
 131  17 species  

1045am-115pm
Conowingo Dam "Fisherman's Park" at end of Shures
Landing Rd., Darlington, Harford & Cecil Counties, MD

Weather: Fair/PC, 64-68 degree, SE 9 mph- SE 15 mph

   1  Pied-billed Grebe 
  71  Double-crested Cormorant - Both counties
  26  Great Blue Heron - B
  42  Black Vulture - B
  26  Turkey Vulture - B
 214  Canada Goose - flock of 122 & 54 to upper dam
  10  American Black Duck - Cecil
  28  Mallard - Cecil
   1  Bufflehead - hen, about a mile downriver
  95  Bald Eagle - 21 ad., 11 HY, 10 1st, 27 2nd,  
                   16 3rd, 10 4th
 252  Ring-billed Gull 
  29  Herring Gull
  23  Great Black-backed Gull
  16  Forster's Tern - flocks of 9 & 7 headed S
 238  Rock Pigeon
   3  Mourning Dove - flyby, Cecil
   1  Downy Woodpecker
   1  Pileated Woodpecker
  14  American Crow  
  28  Fish Crow - heard calling 
   4  Carolina Chickadee
   4  Tufted Titmouse
   2  White-breasted Nuthatch
   3  Carolina Wren
   1  Winter Wren
  62  European Starling - on towers
  18  AMERICAN PIPIT - flyby S, good closeup, H 
   1  Eastern Towhee
   1  Song Sparrow
  13  White-throated Sparrow
   2  "Slate-colored" Junco
   6  Northern Cardinal
  40  Red-winged Blackbird - flyby, county border??
   9  Rusty Blackbird - w/ redwings
   3  PINE SISKEN - w/ goldfinch, Harford to Cecil
   7  American Goldfinch - flyby
1295  36 species

Mammals
   3  Eastern Gray Squirrel
   1  White-tailed Deer


        Kevin Graff
        Jarrettsville, MD & Ocean City, MD
        


	
		
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