Hi all,
Baltimore Bird Club trip
705am-725am
Along Rt 50 east from Bay Bridge to Talbot Co line,
Grasonville, Queen Anne's Co., MD
WEATHER: Fair, 52-54 degrees, calm
5 Canada Goose
4 Mute Swan
1 Common Loon
5 Double-crested Cormorant
3 Osprey
94 Laughing Gull - several fields
1 Herring Gull
2 Great Black-backed Gull
6 Least Tern - over Thompson Creek Mall roof
1 Rock Dove
4 Mourning Dove
2 American Crow
1 Tree Swallow
4 Barn Swallow
7 Red-winged Blackbird
8 Common Grackle
26 European Starling
3 American Goldfinch
1 House Sparrow
178 19 species
735am-810am & 315pm-345pm
Rt 322/Rt 33 toward Tilghman, St. Michaels, Talbot
Co., MD
WEATHER: Fair, 54-59 degrees, calm- NW 6 mph
Fair, 70-72 degrees, SSW 7 mph- SSW 10 mph
4 Canada Goose
3 Mallard
11 Double-crested Cormorant - headed N
3 Great Blue Heron
1 Black Vulture - returned trip
7 Turkey Vulture - same as above
1 Osprey
1 Cooper's hawk - returned trip
1 Red-tailed Hawk
5 Mourning Dove
7 Chimney Swift - town of St. Michael, 2 Rt 322
2 Eastern Kingbird
2 Blue Jay
2 American Crow
3 crow sp.
4 Barn Swallow
2 Carolina Chickadee
1 Eastern Bluebird
8 American Robin
2 Northern Mockingbird
40 European Starling
1 Scarlet Tanager
2 Blue Grosbeak
10 Red-winged Blackbird
97 Common Grackle
2 House Sparrow - town of St. Michael
222 25 species
810am-905am & 155pm-310pm (lunch)
Knapps Narrows Bridge area, off of Walnut Point Rd,
Tilghman, Talbot Co., MD
WEATHER: Fair, 59-61 degrees, NW 6 mph- NW 7 mph
Fair, 70 degrees, SW 8 mph- SW 7 mph
2 Canada Goose
1 Mallard
3 Double-crested Cormorant
3 Great Blue Heron
1 Turkey Vulture
1 Osprey
1 Ring-billed Gull - flyby WNW
3 Herring Gull
3 Great Black-backed Gull
2 Common Tern
1 Downy Woodpecker
2 Fish Crow
1 Northern Rough-winged Swallow
1 Barn Swallow
1 Gray Catbird - flyby
2 Northern Mockingbird
7 European Starling
11 Red-winged Blackbird
16 Common Grackle
1 Brown-headed Cowbird
2 American Goldfinch - flyby
2 House Sparrow
67 22 species
925am-135pm
Poplar Island Environmental Restoration Project
OBSERVERS: 15, 6 Baltimore, 2 Howard, 7 Tri-County
WEATHER: Fair, 61-68 degrees, NW 7 mph- WSW 9 mph
3 Mute Swan
2 Canada Goose
13 American Black Duck
65 Mallard
23 Surf Scoter
2 White-winged Scoter
11 Black Scoter
1 Red-breasted Merganser
8 Ruddy Duck
3 Common Loon
599 Double-crested Cormorant
69 Great Blue Heron
55 Snowy Egret - 52 at nest, 3 at south end
4 Cattle Egret - at nest w/ Snowies
2 Turkey Vulture
22 Osprey - 11 nest around island
4 Bald Eagle
1 Northern Harrier
91 Black-bellied Plover
196 Semipalmated Plover
2 Killdeer
2 American Oystercatcher
7 Greater Yellowlegs
102 Lesser Yellowlegs
1 Solitary Sandpiper
4 Willet
1 Spotted Sandpiper
16 Ruddy Turnstone
5 Sanderling
8 Semipalmated Sandpiper
677 Least Sandpiper
66 peep sp.
1838 Dunlin
1 Short-billed Dowitcher
1 Ring-billed Gull
380 Herring Gull
74 Great Black-backed Gull
2 Royal Tern - headed N
133 Common Tern
1 Least Tern
9 Fish Crow
41 Tree Swallow
13 Northern Rough-winged Swallow
10 Bank Swallow
22 Barn Swallow
2 Eastern Kingbird
4 European Starling
2 Common Yellowthroat
84 Red-winged Blackbird
35 Common Grackle
2 Brown-headed Cowbird
4719 50 species (64 species overall)
Butterflies
1 Question mark
1 Angelwing sp.
Reptiles
1 Diamondback Terrapin
Dragonflies
1 Common Green Darner
Fishes
80+ Mummichog
Poor day for warblers during May Count today but good
for other passerines. Will post it in the morning.
Kevin Graff
Jarrettsville, MD & West O.C., MD
(will leave apartment in O.C. to be in White
Marsh full time job soon)
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