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Carroll Co. Birds 9/5/07

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Bob Ringler

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Wed, 5 Sep 2007 22:06:27 +0000

   Hoping for migrants I visited the McKeldin Area of Patapsco Valley State Park this morning. There were a few. This is a list of non-residents I found:

Pewee  8, one seen & others heard singing or calling
Acadian Flycatcher  1, seen calling
Unidentified Empidonax  1
Yellow-throated Vireo  7, one seen & others heard singing
Red-eyed Vireo  6, one seen & others heard singing or calling
Wood Thrush  2
Robin  3
Chestnut-sided Warbler  1
Black-throated Blue Warbler  1 male
Blackburnian Warbler  2
Black-&-white Warbler  3
Worm-eating Warbler  1
Scarlet Tanager  1

   This afternoon I went out to Liberty Lake to look for shorebirds. The lake has gone down a little since Sunday when I was there last and the the mudflats are more extensive. Birds seen:

Canada Goose  18
Great Blue Heron  1
Great Egret  1
Semipalmated Plover  1, Carroll Co. only
Killdeer  32
Spotted Sandpiper  4
Solitary Sandpiper  3
Lesser Yellowlegs  11
Semipalmated Sandpiper  1, Carroll Co. only
Least Sandpiper  90
Pectoral Sandpiper  10
Stilt Sandpiper  1, Baltimore Co. only

Nearby in the watershed I also found:
Pewee  1
Red-breasted Nuthatch  1
Gnatcatcher  1, heard only
Chestnut-sided Warbler  2
Magnolia Warbler  1
Myrtle Warbler  1
Black-throated Green Warbler  1
Pine Warbler  3
Blackpoll Warbler  1

--
Bob Ringler 
Eldersburg MD