After a successful night railing in Delaware with Andy Ednie, I decided
to skip going home and spent the morning birding Susquehanna State
Park. I started at 5:30am and met up with Rick Cheicante early in the
morning. Rick and I casually birded the area around Rock Run Mill and
Deer Creek until noon, though found most birds to be uncooperative. We
had better luck after a little bit of bushwhacking. Below is our
combined list for the morning (16 warbler sp.). Many of the numbers
were heard-only.
40 Double-crested Cormorant
10 Great Blue Heron
1 Black Vulture
8 Turkey Vulture
25 Canada Goose
1 Wood Duck
6 Mallard
3 Common Merganser
6 Osprey
2 Bald Eagle
3 Spotted Sandpiper
4 Bonaparte's Gull
2 Ring-billed Gull
1 Herring Gull
3 Great Black-backed Gull
25 Caspian Tern
5 Mourning Dove
3 Belted Kingfisher
4 Red-bellied Woodpecker
3 Downy Woodpecker
1 Hairy Woodpecker
2 Eastern Wood-Pewee
3 Acadian Flycatcher
2 Eastern Phoebe
4 Great Crested Flycatcher
2 Eastern Kingbird
1 White-eyed Vireo
1 Yellow-throated Vireo
1 Blue-headed Vireo
3 Warbling Vireo
12 Red-eyed Vireo
8 Blue Jay
6 Fish Crow
1 Purple Martin
20 Tree Swallow
10 Northern Rough-winged Swallow
4 Barn Swallow
14 Carolina Chickadee
10 Tufted Titmouse
2 White-breasted Nuthatch
1 Carolina Wren
12 Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
11 Wood Thrush
4 American Robin
3 Gray Catbird
1 Northern Mockingbird
1 Blue-winged Warbler
11 Northern Parula
3 Yellow Warbler
5 Black-throated Blue Warbler
30 Yellow-rumped Warbler
4 Black-throated Green Warbler
1 Yellow-throated Warbler
7 Cerulean Warbler (there were likely more, but I stopped paying attention)
6 Black-and-white Warbler
4 American Redstart
5 Prothonotary Warbler
4 Worm-eating Warbler
6 Ovenbird
6 Louisiana Waterthrush
4 Kentucky Warbler
1 Common Yellowthroat
3 Scarlet Tanager
3 Song Sparrow
9 White-throated Sparrow
15 Northern Cardinal
2 Rose-breasted Grosbeak
3 Indigo Bunting
2 Red-winged Blackbird
1 Common Grackle
24 Brown-headed Cowbird
2 Orchard Oriole
4 Baltimore Oriole
12 American Goldfinch
Cheers,
Steve Collins
Towson, MD |