Hi Folks!

The North Beach Territory runs from Chesapeake Beach in the south and 
Herrington Harbor in the north.  The goal of this territory is to scan the Bay for 
waterbirds.

Cat Reid, Dave Powell, Ed Boyd and I covered the area from dawn to about 
12:30, when other obligations  in the afternoon ended our day as a group.  I did 
some clean-up in the afternoon  covering the same area.....moslty getting 
numbers.

Common Loon 6 
Horned Grebe 3 
DC Cormnorant 5 
Great Blue Heron 7 
Tundra Swan 26 
Mute Swan 2 
ATLANTIC BRANT 1 [imm.w/ goose flock at Herrington Harbor] 
Canada FGoose 376 
Mallard 43 
Northern Shoveler 1 
Redhead 1 
Greater Scaup 467 
Lesser Scaup 23 
Oldsquaw 634 
Black Scoter 188 
Surf Scoter 972 
White-winged Scoter 14 
Common Goldeneye 423 
Bufflehead 622 
Red-breasted Merganser 9 
Black Vulture 2 
Turkey Vulture 24 
Bald Eagle 1 imm. 
Sharp-shinned Hawk 1 
Red-tailed Hawk 2 
Virginia Rail 2 [pre-dawn at Fishing Creek]
Killdeer 7 
Laughing Gull 1 
Ring-billed Gull 83 
Herring Gull 326 
Great Black-backed Gull  157 
Mourning Dove 4 
Great Horned Owl 2 
Belted Kingfisher 1 
Red-bellied Woodpecker 4 
Downy Woodpecker 3 
Blue Jay 4 
American Crow 14 
Fish Crow 3 
Carolina Chickadee 2 
Tufted Titmouse 2 
White-breasted Nuthatch 3 [all in Anne Arundel County]
Carolina Wren 8 
Marsh Wren 4 [pre-dawn at Fishing Creek]
Ruby-crowned Kinglet 2 
American Robin 280 [coming out of a roost at dawn] 
Northern Mockingbird 4 
European Starling 73 
Myrtle Warbler 3 
Northern Cardinal 8 
Eastern Towhee 1 
Song Sparrow 33 
Swamp Sparrow 14 
White-throated Sparrow 18 
Slate-colored Junco 1 
Red-winged Blackbird 250 
House Finch 4 
American Goldfinch 2 
House Sparrow  64 [most at my feeder] 

Good Birding!

Jim

Jim Stasz
North Beach MD