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Carroll Co. Birds 3/19/06

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Bob Ringler

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Mon, 20 Mar 2006 07:12:48 -0500

   A long walk at Piney Run Park in the morning produced the following:

Canada Goose  30
Greylag Goose  2, one normal & one all white
Tundra Swan  150 on the lake
Black Duck  10
Mallard  20
Lesser Scaup  3 males
Ring-necked Duck  2, a pair
Bufflehead  25
Hooded Merganser  10
Common Merganser  2
Ruddy Duck  10
Pied-billed Grebe  5
Horned Grebe  3
Great Blue Heron  1
Coot  30
Ring-billed Gull  7
Red-bellied Woodpecker  4
Downy Woodpecker  3
Phoebe  2
Blue Jay  5
American Crow  5
Carolina Chickadee  10
Titmouse  3
Red-breasted Nuthatch  4
White-breasted Nuthatch  5
Bluebird  1 heard
Hermit Thrush  2
Robin  1 heard
Towhee  2
Song Sparrow  15
White-throated Sparrow  30
Junco  15
Cardinal  5
Goldfinch  4

   In the evening at Liberty Lake:

Canada Goose  33
Wood Duck  4, two pairs
Mallard  4
Bufflehead  1 female
Common Merganser  13
Pied-billed Grebe  1
Horned Grebe  2
DC Cormorant  11
Red-tailed Hawk  1
Ring-billed Gull  9
Phoebe  1
Pine Warbler  1 heard

   I'm not sure when the cormorants returned. The earliest record for the county is March 16 but I have not checked the lake for a few weeks.
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Bob Ringler
Eldersburg MD