Yesterday I birded in Patapsco Valley State Park from River Rd to Henryton
Rd. for 4 hours
Birds of Note:
6 Northern Rough-winged Swallow nesting in sandbanks
1 Yellow-throated Vireo
7 Red-eyed Vireo
20 Blue-gray Gnatcatcher pair observed constructing elaborate hanging
nest
6 Wood Thrush
21 Northern Parula several actually seen low/close
13 Yellow-rumped Warbler
1 Black-throated Green Warbler
2 Yellow-throated Warbler
1 Pine Warbler
9 Black & White Warbler
1 PROTHONOTARY WARBLER male seen where heard only in 2006
12 Ovenbird
5 Louisiana Waterthrush mostly foraging at river's edge/no longer
singing
3 Common Yellowthroat
4 Scarlet Tanager heard only thus far
Special Yard & Feeder Birds this Week:
1 Wild Turkey heard early AM past few days
1 Rock Dove/White Homer vacationing here at the Birdie B&B
1 Barred Owl heard early AM
2 Rose-breasted Grosbeak new yard bird
1 White-crowned Sparrow new yard bird
1 Indigo Bunting FOY this morning
2 Orchard Oriole
4 Baltimore Oriole yard BAOR seem to have a slightly different
song from orioles singing on river
Felicia Lovelett
Sykesville, MD |