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Talbot Co Walk Wye Island Birds for 3 - 5 - 06 QA county

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danny poet

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danny poet

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Sun, 5 Mar 2006 14:00:50 -0500

Hi all this Morning 3- 05  was the  2nd bird walk for the  Talbot County 
Bird Club. Our stomping Grounds today Was the Wye  Island WMA  in Queen 
Annes County .   The  leader was Danny  Poet but where were  all the Talbot 
Club members ?    No  one  from there showed up .      We did have two   
Vistors one a  new birder  just starrting out from Queenstown  , The  other 
a man member of the AA county chapter of MOS .  When we were all together we 
saw about  31  species  highlights of which are


Canada  Geese     many
Snow   Goose      1       in flock of Canadas
Black  Ducks
Canvasback
Bufflehead
Lesser Scaup
Tundra Swan         6
Red Tailed Hawk     1
Bald Eagles           2        on nests
TV            several
Killdeer        heard only
Flicker
Red Bellied   Woodpecker     3
Hairy woodpecker             1
Downy Woodpecker          3
Bluejay
American    Crow
Carolina  Chickadee       3
Tufted    Titmouse        1
White Breasted  Nuthatch
Carolina Wren            10
Eastern Bluebirds       6    The   males were  singing . one  male was  
doing the wing wave display
Yellow Rumped Warblers     8
Cardinal
Eastern  Towhee        1  male
White Throated Sparrow s          many
Song sparrow

After 11:00 am  the guests left  I went to the last trail on the lower end  
of the Island  were   I added  9 More species                                
                                                                             
                                                                             
                                                                             
                                                to the list   It  is called 
Ferry Point trail

Common     Loon        2
Black  Scoter        13
Surf  Scoter         10
Golden eyes        10
Herring    Gull    1
Mute      Swan     2
Brown     Creeper       1
Horned Lark           2
Dark eyed Junco       6


Happy  Birding
Danny Poet
Queenstown , Md