Hi all,
04/12/07 - 215pm-330pm
Conowingo's Fisherman's Park and along Stafford Rd.,
Shures Landing Rd/Stafford Rd., Darlington, Harford
Co., MD
WEATHER: Fair/MC, 57-55 degrees, SSW 6 mph- ESE 7 mph
Canada Goose - 18 (16 near picnic area)
Wood Duck - 2
American Black Duck - 6
Mallard - 3
Bufflehead - 2
Common Merganser - 3
Double-crested Cormorant - 682 (622 Conowingo)
Great Blue Heron - 229 (103 active nests out of 112)
Black-crowned Night Heron - 1 (adult)
Black Vulture - 2
Turkey Vulture - 34 (25 Conowingo)
Osprey - 6 (4 Conowingo)
Bald Eagle - 33 (14 adults, 19 imm.)
Red-tailed Hawk - 1
American Kestrel - 1
Bonaparte's Gull - 17 (16 Lapidum Landing)
Ring-billed Gull - 15
Herring Gull - 248 (4 Lapidum Landing)
Great Black-backed Gull - 273 (15 Lapidum Landing)
Caspian Tern - 1
Forster's Tern - 1 (Lapidum Landing)
Rock Pigeon - 95
Mourning Dove - 1
Belted Kingfisher - 1
Red-bellied Woodpecker - 2
Downy Woodpecker - 2
Eastern Phoebe - 1
American Crow - 4
Fish Crow - 6
crow sp. - 9
Tree Swallow - 1
Northern Rough-winged Swallow - 4
Barn Swallow - 1
Carolina Chickadee - 2
Carolina Wren - 1
Ruby-crowned Kinglet - 1
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher - 2
American Robin - 5
Northern Mockingbird - 1
Yellow-rumped Warbler - 1
Palm Warbler - 2 (yellow)
Chipping Sparrow - 2 (Deer Creek Picnic Area)
Savannah Sparrow - 1 (Deer Creek Picnic Area)
Song Sparrow - 3
White-throated Sparrow - 2
"Slate-colored" Junco - 1
Northern Cardinal - 9
Red-winged Blackbird - 4
Rusty Blackbird - 5 (swampy canal along Stafford Rd.)
Common Grackle - 1
American Goldfinch - 8
SPECIES: 50
TOTAL BIRDS: 1736
MAMMALS
Gray Squirrel - 6
***There are at least 5 spaces left for this saturday
Smith Island trip, please contact
if you plan to go. The weather for tomorrow looks
good. Point Lookout Boat Dock calls for Cloudy/MC, a
slight chance of rain in the late afternoon, Highs in
the mid 50s, north winds around 5 mph... becoming
southeast in the afternoon. Chance of rain 20 percent.
At Smith Island, calls for Partly Sunny, NW wind 5
mph. This is good time to see gannets headed N up
close for photograph and for all heron/egret species
nesting on the island.***
Kevin Graff
Jarrettsville, MD & West O.C., MD
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