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Carroll Co. Birds 4/30/07

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Bob Ringler

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Tue, 1 May 2007 04:29:24 +0000

   An early morning walk at Glen Falls / North Liberty Lake, cut short by the rain, produced:

Canada Goose  40, also nests with eggs (2, 4, & 6), one nest ready for eggs, and another with one egg and an empty shell with the gosling swimming nearby.
Wood Duck  8
Black Duck  1
Mallard  6
Green-winged Teal  2
Hooded Merganser - 4 females, including three standing on top of a Wood Duck box
Great Blue Heron  2
Green Heron  2
Spotted Sandpiper  1
Solitary Sandpiper  2
Kingbird  1
White-eyed Vireo  2 heard
Tree Swallow  3, nest in birdhouse ready for eggs
Rough-winged Swallow  2
House Wren  2 heard
Gnatcatcher  5
Wood Thrush  1 heard
Catbird  1
Parula  1 heard
Black-throated Blue Warbler  1 heard
Ovenbird  1 heard
Yellowthroat  2 heard
Swamp Sparrow  3 heard
Orchard Oriole  1 adult male

   In the afternoon at Piney Run Park where most of the waterfowl have departed:

Canada Goose  42
Mallard  6
Green-winged Teal  2
Ruddy Duck  2
Common Loon  4
DC Cormorant  1
Great Blue Heron  1
Osprey  1
Coot  2
Ring-billed Gull  3 immatures

--
Bob Ringler 
Eldersburg MD