I met Jim Stasz at Finzel shortly before sunrise Sunday morning. As I was
driving in, I found Jim in a lawn chair next to his car. He had arrived
quite a while earlier and reported a good nocturnal flight of birds. We
birded Finzel, Gravel Hill Rd, Piney Reservoir, and Meadow Lake together.
After this, Jim headed to the Youghiogheny for shorebirds, and I headed
South into the Oakland area and picked up two county birds. Jim had no
unusual shorebirds at the Yough, but did have four American Pipits.
Highlights are shown below:
Finzel Swamp
4 Wood Duck
1 Sharp-shinned Hawk
2 Eastern Screech-Owl
2 Great Horned Owl
1 Belted Kingfisher
4 Eastern Phoebe
2 Ruby-crowned Kinglet
5 Tennessee Warbler
4 Nashville Warbler
2 Magnolia Warbler
1 Black-throated Blue Warbler
6 Black-throated Green Warbler
1 Western Palm Warbler
1 American Redstart
1 Ovenbird
18 Common Yellowthroat
3 Scarlet Tanager
5 Field Sparrow
1 Purple Finch
Gravel Hill Road
1 Killdeer
5 Eastern Phoebe
1 Ruby-crowned Kinglet
1 Cape May Warbler
1 Black-throated Green Warbler
2 Palm Warbler
1 Blackpoll Warbler
Piney Reservoir
2 Wood Duck
1 Great Blue Heron
1 Osprey
10 Killdeer
Meadow Lake
55 Canada Goose
2 Killdeer
Broadford Reservoir
60 Canada Goose
1 Great Blue Heron
1 GREAT EGRET - county bird
3 Green Heron
10 Killdeer
3 Solitary Sandpiper
Mountain Lake
1 Green Heron
5 Killdeer
Trout Run WWTP
10 Wood Duck
1 Red-tailed Hawk
3 American Kestrel
7 Killdeer
100 Tree Swallow
Lucas Turf Farm
1 AMERICAN GOLDEN-PLOVER - county bird
9 Killdeer
1 Common Raven
Cheers and Good Birding,
Mike Burchett
Morgantown, WV
Churchville, MD |