Jay Sheppard and I returned to the Little Patuxent Oxbow Lake Nature 
Preserve just before sunset on Thursday (032207). The list for the entire day 
for the Oxbow (and driving to the Oxbow through Russett) includes:

Red-necked Grebe
Great Blue Heron
Canada Goose
Trumpeter Swan #962 (proud, beautiful & magnificent)
Wood Duck
American Widgeon
Mallard
Green-winged Teal
Ring-necked Duck
Hooded Merganser
Bald Eagle
American Coot
Killdeer
Wilson's Snipe (if you are looking for them, you'll need a scope - they're 
feeding on the tip of the little peninsula that juts out into the middle of the 
lake from the north side)
Ring-billed Gull
Mourning Dove
Red-bellied Woodpecker
Downy Woodpecker
Northern Flicker
Pileated Woodpecker
Eastern Phoebe
Blue Jay
American Crow
Fish Crow
Carolina Chickadee
Tufted Titmouse
Winter Wren
American Robin
Dark-eyed Junco
Northern Cardinal
Red-winged Blackbird
Common Grackle
House Finch
American Goldfinch
House Sparrow

Mammals:
Beaver
Racoon
Red Bat (3-4)


Marcy Stutzman
Russett, MD