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N. Arundel: 5/2/08: Waders, shorebirds, warblers, etc.

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Matthew Grey

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Matthew Grey

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Fri, 2 May 2008 18:42:37 -0400

Hello all.

Went to Swan Creek Dredge Facility today and found 75 species of birds.  
Highlights included KENTUCKY WARBLER, SCARLET TANAGER as well as six 
shorebird species and a few waders. E-mail me off list for specifics about this 
site. 

Highlights:

Great Blue Heron: 4
Great Egret: 2
Little Blue Heron: 6   Four adults and 2 calicos
Glossy Ibis: 4
Double-crested Cormorant: 6
Ruddy Duck: 16  On the Patapsco
Ring-billed Gull: 7
Herring Gull: 24
Great Black-backed Gull: 3
Caspian Tern: 1
American Coot: 1  New wetland
Killdeer: 6 adults, 7 total young n 2 broods
Greater Yellowlegs: 1
Spotted Sandpiper: 2
Solitary Sandpiper: 1
Semipalmated Sandpiper: 3
Least Sandpiper: 2
Peep sp: 5
Osprey: 4
Northern Harrier: 1
Cooper's Hawk: 1
Sharp-shinned Hawk: 2
Chimney Swift: 2
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher: 4
Cedar Waxwing: 10+
WOOD THRUSH: 1
GRAY CATBIRD: 8 
Brown Thrasher: 2  One with nesting material
Eastern Kingbird: 3
Great-crested Flycatcher: 2
White-eyed Vireo: 2
Red-eyed Vireo: 1
YELLOW-THROATED VIREO: 1
Pine Warbler: 1
Palm Warbler: 2 (yellow)
Northern Parula: 1  Woodland road area
Yellow Warbler: 2
Black-and-white Warbler: 1 male
KENTUCKY WARBLER: 1  Woodland road area
Black-throated Green Warbler: 1
Common Yellowthroat: 19+  Seemingly everywhere
Eastern Towhee: 2
Field Sparrow: 2
White-throated Sparrow: 6
Swamp Sparrow: 1  New wetland area
SCARLET TANAGER: 1 male
INDIGO BUNTING: 2
Orchard Oriole: 1
Baltimore Oriole: 3

Butterflies:

Black Swallowtail: 1
Tiger Swallowtail: 1
Cabbage White: 7
Orange Sulphur: 4
Clouded Sulphur: 1
Spring Azure: 5
Eastern Tailed-Blue: 2
Juvenal's Duskywing: 1

Also, had a Rose-breasted Grosbeak in my yard yesterday at one of the 
feeders.

Matt Grey
Pasadena