Hi all,
Just returned from the long birding weekend to
Eastern Shore including Rarity Roundup on Sat.
At my arrival at home around 215pm today, there
were 14,000 Common Grackle, 3,000 Red-winged
Blackbirds, 600 European Starling and finally 600
Brown-headed Cowbirds flyby to the N. None of them
stop by the fields like they did this past Thurs. See
not see any rusty in this flyover flock.
It was a busy Thursday morning with many passeries
either just flying around or migrating through.
8am-12pm - 11/10/05
yard birds including feeders, woods, old corn stubble
fields across street, Old Federal Hill Rd.,
Jarrettsville, Harford Co., MD
Weather: Cloudy/Windy on/off, 50-51 degree, WNW 10 mph
- NW 13 mph, gust up to 28 mph around 11am.
2 Common Loon - distant flyby SE
1 Black Vulture - flyby
3 Turkey Vulture - flyby
16 Canada Goose - pond across street, end of road
1 Sharp-shinned Hawk
1 Red-shouldered Hawk - local
7 Red-tailed Hawk
1 Mourning Dove - flyby
1 Red-bellied Woodpecker
2 Downy Woodpecker
4 Blue Jay - woods area
1 American Crow - flyby
7 Carolina Chickadee - feeders and woods area
6 Tufted Titouse - feeders
2 White-breasted Nuthatch - feeders
2 Carolina Wren - feeder woods
1 Winter Wren - brush piles
3 Eastern Bluebird - private driveway at fields
72 American Robin - flyby
892 European Starling
7 American Pipit - following behind grackle flock
34 Cedar Waxwing - flyby
22 Yellow-rumped Warbler - flyby, some in woods
3 White-throated Sparrow - feeders
13 "Slate-colored" Junco - feeders
2 Northern Cardinal - woods
791 Red-winged Blackbird
2 BREWER'S BLACKBIRD - a pair
29 Rusty Blackbird - correct # was 29, not 49
*** Common Grackle - 85,000+
2 Purple Finch - flyby w/ House Finch
17 House Finch
4 American Goldfinch
1 House Sparrow - scoped out at church from yard
1952 34 species - + 85,000 grackles
Mammals
2 Eastern Chipmunk
5 Gray Squirrel
Kevin Graff
Jarrettsville, MD & Ocean City, MD
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