Hi Everyone , 


After driving the wildlife drive at Blackwater refugee Sunday two times I was 
finally able to find the Red Phalarope outside of the wildlife drive . From the 
end of the drive turn left , go a little ways and there is a parking area on the 
right . From this parking lot looking across the road the Red Phalarope was in 
the very left hand corner of the cove. It was standing in front of a small island 
of marsh grass . It  was doing the spinning  that it is known for . There was a 
few hundred Mallard behind the bird . They were all spooked after about 15 
minutes . They flew around and landed further back behind a big island of 
grass out of sight. Also here were several hundred Canada goose , 4 Brown 
Pelicans in the back , a few Forster Terns flying around and Two Bald Eagle 
landed in the edge of the woods behind the lot. A couple Yellow rumped 
warblers were hanging in the bushes next to the parking lot. Bird list below. 


Most of the smallbirds were seen from a walk on the Marsh Edge trail 1/3 miles 

Bald Eagle    10 
American Kestrel    ( many on the wires along Egypt rd. )
Brown Pelican 
Canada goose
Great Blue heron
Double crested cormorant
Mallard 
Northern Pintail 
Tundra Swan 
Laughing gull
Ringbilled gull
RED PHALAROPE   (from rt 335 bridge at 330 ) 
Forsters Tern 
Least sandpiper   ( one of which had an injured leg also and was hopping 
about ) 
Dunlin 
Greater Yellowlegs 
Turkey Vulture
Black Vulture
American crow
Hermit thrush
Yellow bellied sapsucker
Red bellied  woodpecker
Downy woodpecker
Song sparrow 
Savannah sparrow 
Bluebird
Tree swallow
Carolina wren
Yellow rumped warbler
Redbreasted nuthatch
Ruby crowned kinglet 
American robin 
( Egypt rd. mixed flock of 1000  Redwinged blackbird
Brown headed cowbird
Common grackle
European starling .

Thank you Sbyrd


Saundra Byrd
 
baltimore md.