My internet access has been out for two days. If anyone sent me a personal message since Thursday morning it did not reach me. Meanwhile,
March 29
Boog Road
Ring-necked Duck 6
No shrikes here or at the pig farm
Westminster Reservoir
Canada Goose 4
Ruddy Duck 1
Coot 5
Tree Swallow 8
Study Road Farm Pond
Canada Goose 31
Gadwall 3
Goldeneye 1 female
Horned Grebe 1
Coot 1
Flickinger Road Farm Pond & Swamp
Canada Goose 12
Mallard 2
Ring-necked Duck 3
Bullfrog Road
Harrier 1 male, my first of the spring
McKeldin Area, Patapsco Valley SP
Canada Goose 4
Wood Duck 2
Sapsucker 1, my first of the spring
Phoebe 4
Rough-winged Swallow 1
Brown Creeper 1
Golden-crowned Kinglet 12
Pine Warbler 1 male, I see one most springs here on the floodplain though there is not a pine tree in sight. This one was doing a variety of trills and feeding on the ground and in low shrubs..
Chipping Sparrow - 1, my first here this year
Fox Sparrow 1
White-throated Sparrow 10
Junco 15
March 30
McKeldin Area, Patapsco Valley SP
Phoebe 1 heard
Brown Creeper 1
Winter Wren 1
Golden-crowned Kinglet 2 heard
Hermit Thrush 1, my first of the spring
Field Sparrow 1 heard singing, strictly a migrant here
March 31
McKeldin Area, Patapsco Valley SP - dozens of fisherman present this morning. I finally heard one Louisiana Waterthrush singing but couldn't get close to it. It was probably kept moving by all the fisherman. I think it was on the Howard County side of the river. First tent caterpillars seen today.
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Bob Ringler
Eldersburg MD
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