MNPS Annual Winter Solstice Walk - Chapman State Park, Mt. Aventine Area, Charles County - Saturday, December 22, 2007



Present: Carole Bergmann, Luke Bergmann, Bonnie Bick, Bill and Jane Hill, Marc Imlay, Dwight and Kirsten Johnson, Jim Long, Julie Moore, Tom Raque, Marv Rubin, Rod Simmons, Meghan Tice, Peter and Martha Whitney, Ken Wright, and others.



Birds observed (39 species):



Great Blue Heron

Canada Goose

Scaup sp. (on the Potomac - didn't have 

            optics powerful enough to specify)

Bufflehead

Turkey Vulture

Black Vulture

Red-shouldered Hawk

Red-tailed Hawk

Bald Eagle (1 adult; a nest seen that will 

            be checked in Feb)

Wild Turkey

Ring-billed Gull

Belted Kingfisher

Red-headed Woodpecker (several in the 

            swamp along the Potomac)

Red-bellied Woodpecker

Yellow-bellied Sapsucker

Downy Woodpecker

Hairy Woodpecker

Northern Flicker

Pileated Woodpecker

            [If you want to see all possible species of 

            woodpeckers in one winter day, this is a 

            good place to do it.]

Blue Jay

American Crow

Tufted Titmouse

Carolina Chickadee

White-breasted Nuthatch

Carolina Wren

Winter Wren

Golden-crowned Kinglet

Eastern Bluebird

American Robin

Hermit Thrush (1 singing its heart out)

Brown Thrasher

Cedar Waxwing

Northern Cardinal

Eastern Towhee

White-throated Sparrow

Dark-eyed (Slate-colored) Junco

Red-winged Blackbird

Rusty Blackbird

American Goldfinch



Happy Holidays,

Good Birding,

Meghan Tice

Bowie, MD

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