Subject: | N. Arundel: 5/2/08: Waders, shorebirds, warblers, etc. |
From: | Matthew Grey |
Reply-To: | Matthew Grey |
Date: | Fri, 2 May 2008 18:42:37 -0400 |
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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 | |
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