Hello all.

I birded some of my usual haunts in Northern Anne Arundel today. Also took in 
Fort Armistead, which is just over the city line; Armistead provides excellent 
scoping opportunities of the birds roosting on Fort Carroll.  Nice day for it, too.

Totals:

Swan Creek/Cox Creek Dredge Facility:

Great Blue Heron: 7  Scattered around the wetland areas
Double-crested Cormorant: 18...I would find 'the rest of them' later
Canada Goose: 30
Mute Swan: 2
Mallard: 51
Lesser Scaup: 150+  Patapsco River
Greater Scaup: 40+/-  Patapsco River
Scaup sp undiff: 100+ Patapsco River
Ring-necked Duck: 1 female in the old wetland
Bufflehead: 8
Hooded Merganser: 2  Mitigated wetland
Ring-billed Gull: 96
Herring Gull: 8
Great Black-backed Gull: 26
Red-shouldered Hawk: 1 adult
Red-tailed Hawk: 1 adult
American Coot: 18  Old wetland
Belted Kingifsher: 2  Mitigated wetland
American Crow: 4
Blue Jay: 11
Mourning Dove: 6
Red-bellied Woodpecker: 4
Northern Flicker: 2
Downy Woodpecker: 3
Hairy Woodpecker: 2  
Northern Mockingbird: 2  Patrolling the entrance to the woodland road
Carolina Wren: 7
Winter Wren: 1  Flew out of a thicket on the far west end of the old wetland
European Starling: 20+ 
Carolina Chickadee: 8
Tufted Titmouse: 6
Song Sparrow: 14
Swamp Sparrow: 1  Really close view by mimigated wetland
White-throated Sparrow: 28
Dark-eyed Junco: 16
Northern Cardinal: 14
Red-winged Blackbird: 12
Common Grackle: 20+, single flock
American Goldfinch: 24
House Finch: 5

Brandon Woods Pond:

Canada Goose: 24
Mallard: 4
American Black Duck: 1
Gadwall: 8
Hooded Merganser: 6

Fort Armistead Park:

Common Loon: 1  Just outside the shipping channel under the Key Bridge
Double-crested Cormorant: 220+  perched on the edges of Fort Carroll
Bufflehead: 16  Feeding actively on the Patapsco
Ring-billed Gull: 110+ total between Carroll and Armistead
Herring Gull: 20+
Great Black-backed Gull: 35+ Mostly on Carroll

Matt Grey
Pasadena