Hello Everyone ,
Saturday January 20, 2007
COLD COLD COLD
Visited Southwest area park with Brian Sykes on Saturday.
This had to be my coldest day yet as a birdwatcher. Brian says this is
his second coldest day. Wind chill probably in the 20's .
It was one of my most exciting days as well .We accomplished
our goal of checking out the eagles nests (old and new) . Our
most exciting part of the day though was the (and im quoting this from
past postings .) Pied Crow. Im yelling to Brian eagle incoming and hes
yelling whats that on the ground . He had to do much convincing
to get me to take my eyes off the eagle . The crow was in the grass spot in
the middle of the parking lot at the boat launch area . We managed pictures
on all 4 sides of the bird before he exited toward South Baltimore City .
At first we were thinking "new bird" , but luckily i read the md. osprey
and remember he was reported most recently and as much as a year ago.
A great bird. There was a flock of crows in the marsh area being noisy
but none came over to mob the bird. oh and he was eating carrion.
The pond behind the business park on Nursery Rd. had
Canadian Geese, Gadwall, Mallard, DoubleCrested Cormorant, Hooded
Merganser, Ring billed Gull .
Bird list
Bald eagle 4
Redtailed hawk 3
Canadian goose 50
Mallard
Gadwall 20
Hooded merganser
Doublecrested cormorant
Ringbilled gull
Turkey vulture
PIED CROW
American crow
Northern mockingbird
Northern cardinal
Carolina wren
European starling
House sparrow
White throated sparrow
Dark eyed junco
total 18
yard birds sunday
1st snow of the winter.
Sharpshinned hawk 1
American crow ( to and from carroll park roost )
Fish crow (to and from carroll park roost )
Ringbilled Gull
European Starling 50
Rock dove 20
Mourning dove 20
House sparrow 50
White throated sparrow 10
Common grackle 10
Downy woodpecker 2
Redwing blackbird 10
Brown headed cowbird 10
Northern cardinal 8
Northern mockingbird 2
Darkeyed junco 10
Carolina wren 3
total 17
gray squirrel 4
58 days till spring .
good birding
Saundra Byrd
baltimore city
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