Debbie Terry and I birded northern Carroll County this morning with the highlight being a pair of GREATER WHITE-FRONTED GEESE.
Westminster Reservoir:
Canada Goose 1,200
Pied-billed Grebe 3
Ring-billed Gull 2
Hashawha:
Red-tailed Hawk 4
Winter Wren 1
GC Kinglet 1 heard
YELLOWTHROAT 1 male still here, in cattails at the dam instead of the marsh
TREE SPARROW 1
Field Sparrow 7
Song Sparrow 25
Swamp Sparrow 4
White-throated Sparrow 20
Junco 10
Goldfinch 4
Study Road Farm Pond (half frozen) - if you visit here please stay on the road (DeLorme 73B6):
WHITE-FRONTED GOOSE 2 orange-billed adults in the field behind the house
Canada Goose 1,000
CACKLING GOOSE 1 on the pond
Mallard 20
Pintail 1 female
Goldeneye 1 female
Hooded Merganser 4
Other Roads:
Red-tailed Hawk 1 albino, or nearly so, on Ruggles Rd half mile E of Teeter Rd
Kestrel 6
Horned Lark 4 on Jasontown Rd
Savannah Sparrow 1 with the larks
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Bob Ringler
Eldersburg MD
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