Observations at Eastern Sanitary Landfill
January 21, 2006
0800 - 1600
Weather: AM: sunny, 32 degrees, SW 5 MPH; PM: cloudy, 60 degrees, 10 MPH
Observers: Gene Scarpulla, Marcia Watson-Whitmyre
(part of the BALTIMORE MID-WINTER BIRD COUNT)

*SPECIES OF NOTE

Canada Goose - 9
Mallard - 2
Black Vulture - 8
Turkey Vulture - 33
Ring-billed Gull - 1500
Herring Gull - 5000
*LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULL - 6 (2 adult-winter, 3 3rd-winter, 1 2nd-winter)
Great Black-backed Gull - 500
Rock Pigeon - 2
Mourning Dove - 2
American Crow - 50
Fish Crow - 15
unidentified crow sp. - 500
Carolina Wren - 1
*WINTER WREN - 1
European Starling - 500
Song Sparrow - 6
Dark-eyed Junco - 12 (Slate-colored)
Northern Cardinal - 1
Common Grackle - 67 (Purple)


Gene Scarpulla
Millers Island, Maryland