Mid-afternoon on Sunday around 4pm at the Little Patuxent Oxbow Lake
Nature Preserve:
Great Blue Heron
Green Heron
Canada Goose
Trumpeter Swan #960
Wood Duck
Mallard
Red-tailed Hawk
Killdeer
Lesser Yellowlegs
Greater Yellowlegs
Spotted Sandpiper
SEMIPALMATED SANDPIPER
Red-bellied Woodpecker
EASTERN WOOD PEWEE
GREAT-CRESTED FLYCATCHER
Yellow-throated Vireo
Fish Crow
Blue Jay
Tree Swallow
Northern Rough-winged Swallow
Barn Swallow
Carolina Chickadee
Tufted Titmouse
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
American Robin
Gray Catbird
Northern Cardinal
Red-winged Blackbird
A good example of how environment plays a part in behavior is to compare
#962 (at Schoolhouse Pond) with his brother #960 (at Oxbow Lake). As Stan
Arnold mentioned in his posting, he was able to take a picture of #962 on the
sidewalk from 5 feet away. #962 is copying the behavior of the geese and
ducks who are fed by people from the shore and come right up to the sidewalk
to pose. #960 on the other hand, rules his environs and wouldn't think of
giving a photographer the chance of capturing his image any closer than from
the middle of his lake.
Marcy Stutzman
Russett, MD
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