Hello all.

Today's 'bird walk' at Fort Smallwood consisted of Redpoll hunting...and finding 
a lot of other species in between.  

We had 54 species total on the day, with many birds added to this list by 
some of the (perhaps 50) birders who visited the park today (a good number 
of whom got at least one Redpoll).  

Here are the species seem by me/reported to me:  

Horned Grebe: Patapsco River, Sue Ricciardi's bird
Double-crested Cormorant
Great Blue Heron
Canada Goose
Green-winged Teal: pond
American Black Duck: pond
Mallard: pond
Gadwall: pond
Canvasback
Greater Scaup
Common Goldeneye
Bufflehead
Hooded Merganser: pond
Turkey Vulture: hawkwatch
Bald Eagle: over the south end of the park
Northern Harrier: hawkwatch, Bob R.'s bird
Cooper's Hawk: hawkwatch
Red-tailed Hawk: hawkwatch
American Coot: pond
Killdeer
Ring-billed Gull
Herring Gull
Great Black-backed Gull
Rock Pigeon
Mourning Dove
Red-bellied Woodpecker
Downy Woodpecker
Northern Flicker
Blue Jay
American Crow
Fish Crow
Carolina Chickadee
Tufted Titmouse
White-breasted Nuthatch
Carolina Wren
Winter Wren: Scott Michaud's bird
Eastern Bluebird
American Robin: Good numbers in the morning
Northern Mockingbird
Cedar Waxwing
European Starling
Northern Cardinal
Eastern Towhee
Song Sparrow
Swamp Sparrow
White-throated Sparrow
Dark-eyed Junco
Red-winged Blackbird: several hundred
Common Grackle
Brown-headed Cowbird
House Finch
COMMON REDPOLL: 2  In/around Sweet Gum trees near old fort
American Goldfinch

Matt Grey
Pasadena