Hello all.

It was good late March day in Northern AA County. Good numbers and good 
species diversity.  

Highlights at Swan Creek were FOY Great Egret, Little Blue Heron and Marsh 
Wren along with good sparrow numbers and a good assortment of raptors. The 
tree swallow display over the wetlands was also enjoyable. 

Also took an evening trip back to Kembo Road and had a Merlin flyover and a 
Fox Sparrow in the brush.

Totals:

Swan Creek/Cox Creek Dredge Facility (morning):

Common Loon: 4  on the patapsco
Pied-billed Grebe: 2  old wetland
Double-crested Cormorant: 15
Great Blue Heron: 5
Great Egret: 1  new wetland
LITTLE BLUE HERON: 3  new wetland, foraging
Mute Swan: 10  Yes, ten. 
Canada Goose: 26
Mallard: 11
Green-winged Teal: 8
Greater Scaup: 60+  Patapsco River
Ring-necked Duck: 4  old wetland
Bufflehead: 30+  Patapsco River
Hooded Merganser: 8  new wetland
Turkey Vulture: 85+  Including a kettle of 80 
Black Vulture: 4
Osprey: 5  over several water areas
Red-tailed Hawk: 1 
Red-shouldered Hawk: 1  really nice low flyover
Cooper's Hawk: 1
American Coot: 32
Killdeer: 14  mudflats and dredge cells
Wilson's Snipe: 8  mudflats of the new wetland, always fun to see
American Woodcock: 1  flushed by trailside, twice
Ring-billed Gull: 30+
Herring Gull: 16
Great Black-backed Gull: 6
Mourning Dove: 4
Belted Kingfisher: 2  one male, one female
Red-bellied Woodpecker: 3
Downy Woodpecker: 2
Hairy Woodpecker: 1 male
Northern Flicker: 2
Eastern Phoebe: 3
Blue Jay: 2
American Crow: 2
Fish Crow: 2
Crow sp.: 1
Tree Swallow: 55+  over the old and new wetlands
Carolina Chickadee: 4
Tufted Titmouse: 2
White-breasted Nuthatch: 2
Caroina Wren: 5
MARSH WREN: 1  new wetland edge
American Robin: 4
Northern Mockingbird: 1
European Starling: 20+
Northern Cardinal: 12
Eastern Towhee: 2
Song Sparrow: 14
Savannah Sparrow: 2
Swamp Sparrow: 4  new wetland area
White-throated Sparrow: 7
Red-winged Blackbird: 35
Brown-headed Cowbird: 2
Common Grackle: 4
House Finch: 2
American Goldfinch: 8

Kembo Road: (evening):

Great Blue Heron: 1
Canada Goose: 6
MERLIN: 1
Eastern Phoebe: 1
Eastern Bluebird: 2 still there and checking out tree cavities
Fox Sparrow: 1  

Matt Grey
Pasadena