Hi all,


Anne Arundel Bird Club's Mid-Winter Bird Count.  
-38 miles driven (around loop twice), 2 miles walked

02/03/08 - 8am-12pm   
Patuxent Research Refuge "North Tract" Bald Eagle Rd./
Wildlife Loop, Ft. Meade, Anne Arundel Co., MD

WEATHER: MC/Sunny, 28-49 degrees, calm- NW 7 mph

Canada Goose - 9
Mallard - 2
Hooded Merganser - 4
Great Blue Heron - 1
Black Vulture - 1
Turkey Vulture - 2
Red-shouldered Hawk - 1
Red-tailed Hawk - 1
Wilson's Snipe - 1 (flushed behind Merganser Pond)
Ring-billed Gull - 32 (flyby)
Herring Gull - 9 (flyby)
Mourning Dove - 16
Belted Kingfisher - 1
Red-bellied Woodpecker - 3
Downy Woodpecker - 2
Northern Flicker - 35 (half behind Merganser Pond)
Pileated Woodpecker - 1
Blue Jay - 81 (all over place)
American Crow - 2
Carolina Chickadee - 9
Tufted Titmouse - 2
Red-breasted Nuthatch - 1 (feeders)
White-breasted Nuthatch - 2
Carolina Wren - 2
Ruby-crowned Kinglet - 1
Eastern Bluebird - 11
Hermit Thrush - 5 (a lot of leaf throwing in woods)
American Robin - 23
Northern Mockingbird - 9
Brown Thrasher - 1
European Starling - 5
Cedar Waxwing - 5
Yellow-rumped Warbler - 5
Eastern Towhee - 1
Chipping Sparrow - 1
Field Sparrow - 11
Song Sparrow - 69
Swamp Sparrow - 6
White-throated Sparrow - 74
"Slate-colored" Junco - 94
Northern Cardinal - 7
Red-winged Blackbird - 29 (one at feeders)
Eastern Meadowlark - 1 (military side of fence)
Rusty Blackbird - 1
Common Grackle - 564 (two flocks)
Brown-headed Cowbird - 6
Purple Finch - 3 (feeders)
House Finch - 26 (many at feeders)
American Goldfinch - 5
SPECIES: 49
TOTAL BIRDS: 1183

MAMMALS
Gray Squirrel - 29


      Kevin Graff
      Jarrettsville, MD & West Ocean City, MD
      



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