While taking a morning bird walk through Pocomoke Sound WMA we were
surprised to see 3 Red Crossbills ( 2 females and 1 male ) eating juniper berries.
They where at the very end of the walk in a juniper tree next to the abandoned
house.
Other birds I saw are the following:
500+ Canvasbacks
450+ Ruddy Ducks
1 Common Loon
26 Surf Scoters
25 Canada Geese
30+ Buffleheads
4 Bald Eagles
2 Northern Harriers
100+ Swamp Sparrows
49+ Savanna Sparrows
70+ Redwing Blackbirds
4 Marsh Wrens
58+ Song Sparrows
70 White throated Sparrows
20+ Cardinal
4 Rufous sided Towhees
29+ Yellow rumped Warblers
17 Carolina Chickadees
6 Carolina Wrens
2 Pileated woodpeckers
2 Downey Woodpeckers
3 Hairy Woodpeckers
5 Northern Flickers
3 Red belled Woodpeckers
1 Brown Creeper
29+ Brown headed Nuthatches
9 Red breasted Nuthatch
45 Black bellied Plovers
2 Greater Yellowlegs
6 king Rails
10 Virginia Rails
1 Screech Owl
1 Great blue Heron
5 Ruby crowned Kinglets
2 Golden crowned Kinglets
1 Red tailed Hawk
2 Blue Jays
12 American Robins
14 Eastern Bluebirds
2 Tufted Titmice
27 Cedar Waxwings
5 American Goldfinches
37 Juncos
5 Fish Crows
7 American crows
12 Turkey Vultures
9 Black Vultures
( Off topic, I forgot to mention that the reddish squirrels I saw at Snow
Hill where exactly the same size as the grays and didn't have the longer more
bushier tail that Delmarva Fox Squirrels are known for. Also I did a search on
Google and found out that there is a rare instance of a reddish Gray
Squirrel which can vary (red gray or black red) the ones I saw where mostly red
gray. )
Birding forever
Jennifer Elmer
Pocomoke City MD
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