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Caroline & QA Counties 8/28/07

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Bob Ringler

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Wed, 29 Aug 2007 11:53:56 +0000

   Yesterday I started the morning at Terrapin Nature Park. Most of the migrant passerines I saw were near the parking lot. Here is a partial list of birds seen:

Mute Swan  2
Wood Duck  6
Great Egret  1
Green Heron  1
Osprey  2
Forster's Tern  1
Yellow-billed Cuckoo  1
Great Crested Flycatcher  1 heard
Eastern Kingbird  4
Red-eyed Vireo  1
Gnatcatcher  4
Robin  50
Brown Thrasher  1
Blue-winged Warbler  1
Yellow Warbler  4
Magnolia Warbler  2
Black-throated Green Warbler  1
Black-&-white Warbler  1
Redsatart  6
Ovenbird  1
Northern Waterthrush  1
Yellowthroat  6
Scarlet Tanager  3
Blue Grosbeak  3
Baltimore Oriole  3

At Central Sod Farms I joined Wayne Bell and others. Besides the Killdeer and Horned Larks we saw 2 Solitary Sandpipers, at least 7 Least Sandpipers, and 3 distant birds that could have bee Buff-breasts but never came close enough to identify. Bobolinks were going into the sunflower patch. For a second stop on the way home the Solitaries and Leasts were still present.

I also visited the Ridgely WWTP. The water level is high but a number of birds were present:

Canada Goose  10
Mallard  38
Shoveler  1
Green-winged Teal  3
Killdeer  2
Spotted Sandpiper  3
Lesser Yellowlegs  3
Least Sandpiper  5

--
Bob Ringler 
Eldersburg MD