As incredible as it sounds, I saw a Seaside Sparrow along the boardwalk at Patterson Park today. It tried to keep hidden in fallen reeds and under the boardwalk. This is a life bird and an amazing addition to my Patterson Park location list.

A man told me how he hooked a duck while fishing the other day. He then described the Lesser Scaup to other day. "...it couldn't get free so I had to reel him in and pull hook out his side."  The Scaup appears to have a damaged right leg that it is holding straight back, level with the water. Did it learn from the encounter? Well, it swam within five feet of another guy feeding the Mallards. Maybe it's just that hungry.

Location:     Patterson Park - Baltimore
Observation date:     4/3/08
Number of species:     28

Mallard     71
Lesser Scaup     1
Turkey Vulture     1
Osprey     1
Northern Goshawk     1
American Kestrel     1
Merlin     1
Ring-billed Gull     48
Rock Pigeon     9
Mourning Dove     6
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker     5
Northern Flicker (Yellow-shafted)     3
Eastern Phoebe     15
Blue Jay     2
Fish Crow     2
White-breasted Nuthatch     1
Brown Creeper     1
American Robin     44
Brown Thrasher     3
European Starling     12
Eastern Towhee     1
Seaside Sparrow     1
Song Sparrow     13
Swamp Sparrow     1
Dark-eyed Junco (Slate-colored)     12
Red-winged Blackbird     2
House Finch     2
House Sparrow     2

This report was generated automatically by eBird v2(http://ebird.org)

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Keith Eric Costley

Randallstown, Baltimore County