Today I substituted for Gene Scarpulla at Hart-Miller. Could have used more eyes. There were lots of birds:
Canada Goose 14
Mute Swan 60
Gadwall 17
Black Duck 5
Mallard 23
Blue-winged Teal 5
Shoveler 19
Green-winged Teal 20
Ring-necked Duck 4
Greater Scaup 2
Lesser Scaup 29
Bufflehead 28
Ruddy Duck 120
Common Loon 1 flying over
Pied-billed Grebe 18
Horned Grebe 1
DC Cormorant 75
Great Blue Heron 8
Great Egret 1
Osprey 10
Bald Eagle 1 adult
Harrier 2
Unidentified rail 1
Coot 605
Killdeer 12
Greater Yellowlegs 5
Lesser Yellowlegs 7
Least Sandpiper 4
Dunlin 12
Snipe 2
Bonaparte's Gull 180
Ring-billed Gull 105
Herring Gull 125
Lesser Black-back 3, two adults in breeding plumage and a second-summer bird
Great Black-back 11
Caspian Tern 345
Mourning Dove 10
Chimney Swift 2
Red-bellied Woodpecker 1 heard
Downy Woodpecker 2
Fish Crow 4
Purple Martin 1 female
Tree Swallow 55
Rough-winged Swallow 1
Barn Swallow 20
Carolina Chickadee 1 heard
Tufted Titmouse 1 heard
Carolina Wren 8
Marsh Wren 1
Ruby-crowned Kinglet 3
Gnatcatcher 1
Robin 7
Mockingbird 1
Starling 10, one collecting nesting material
Myrtle Warbler 9
Yellow Palm Warbler 6
Chipping Sparrow 2
Field Sparrow 1
Savannah Sparrow 23
Song Sparrow 55
Swamp Sparrow 31
White-throated Sparrow 3
Junco 1
Cardinal 3
Red-winged Blackbird 85
Common Grackle 19
Cowbird 13
House Finch 8
Goldfinch 14
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Bob Ringler
Eldersburg MD
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