Hi all

The Pelicans were still at Blackwater Monday. For that matter, the Harlequin 
was still at the Cambridge boat ramp. It was a fun day with a couple of 
surprises

Common Loon (I saw *and heard* the loon on Elliot Islant Road)
American White Pelican (a new state bird for me!)
Great Cormorant (At the Cambridge boat ramp)
Great Blue Heron
Tundra Swan
Mute Swan (mercifully, only two)
Snow Goose (both forms)
Canada Goose
American Black Duck
Mallard
Northern Pintail
Northern Shoveler
American Wigeon
Ring-necked Duck
Lesser Scaup (there may have been some Greaters there but I just can't be 
sure)
Harlequin Duck
Long-tailed Duck
Black Scoter
Surf Scoter
Bufflehead
Common Merganser
Ruddy duck
Black Vulture
Turkey Vulture
Bald Eagle (enough so that I was saying, "Ho-hum, another Bald." But I think 
I got some nice pictures)
Northern Harrier
Sharp-shinned Hawk
Red-tailed Hawk
American Kestral
Killdeer
Ring-billed Gull
Herring Gull
Great Black-backed Gull
Rock Pigeon
Mourning Dove
Belted Kingfisher
Red-bellied Woodpecker
Northern Flicker
Blue Jay
American Crow
Carolina Chickadee
Red-breasted Nuthatch
Brown-headed Nuthatch (I think this is the first time in my life when I saw 
two species of nuthatch and one of them wasn't white-breasted!)
Carolina Wren
Marsh Wren
Golden-crowned Knglet
Eastern Bluebird
Gray Catbird (!) - (Elliot Island Road)
Northern Mockingbird
European Starling
Yellow-rumped Warbler
Northern cardinal
American Tree Sparrow (a flock of more than 20 at the pay station of 
Wildlife Drive)
Field Sparrow
Song Sparrow
Swamp Sparrow
White-troated Sparrow
Dark-eyed Junco
Red-winged blackbird
Common Grackle
American Goldfinch

61 species

Don Burggraf
Baltimore