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Carroll Co. Birds 3/29-31/07

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Bob Ringler

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Sat, 31 Mar 2007 23:02:18 +0000

   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