Walking in the Liberty Watershed in both both morning and afternoon between Deer Park Road and Bollinger Mill Road and beyond it was a very birdy day.

Canada Goose  60 flying over high
Wood Duck  5
Mallard
Common Merganser  3
Black Vulture  3
Turkey Vulture  8
Red-shouldered Hawk  3
Killdeer  1 heard flying over
Ring-billed Gull 11 flew over
Mourning Dove  2 heard
Barred Owl  1 flushed
Kingfisher  2
Red-bellied Woodpecker  3
Sapsucker  2
Downy Woodpecker  8
Hairy Woodpecker  1 heard
Flicker  3
Pileated Woodpecker  1
Phoebe  3 heard, one singing and two calling
Blue Jay  7
American Crow  6
Fish Crow  2
Carolina Chickadee  16
Titmouse  6
White-breasted Nuthatch  5
Brown Creeper  1 heard
Carolina Wren  6
Winter Wren  4, two seen and two heard singing
GC Kinglet  10
Hermit Thrush  2, one seen and one heard singing
Mockingbird  1
Pine Warbler  3, a pair seen and another heard singing
Towhee  9
Field Sparrow  8
Fox Sparrow  6
Song Sparrow  10
Swamp Sparrow  2
White-throated Sparrow  15
Junco  10
Cardinal  10
Common Grackle  20 flew over
Purple Finch  1 brown bird singing
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Bob Ringler
Eldersburg MD