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Susquehanna State Park- Rock Run Area (5/25)

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Nico Sarbanes

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Nico Sarbanes

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Sun, 25 May 2008 15:15:33 -0400

Hey everyone-

After waking up at 5:00 am on Saturday morning to head for New Jersey with
Pete Webb, Leslie Starr, and Kevin Graff to bird Cape May and see the Curlew
Sandpipers, I thought I would sleep in today.  But when Leslie called me at
7:20 this morning to say that she and Joe Turner were heading out to Rock
Run for Cerulean Warblers, it was an impossible offer to resist. We had a
great day, with 8 CERULEAN WARBLERS (6 heard and 2 seen) being the
highlights.  The complete list follows:

Location: Susquehanna SP- Rock Run Area
Time: 9:00 am to 1:30 pm

Double-crested Cormorant     30
Great Blue Heron     32
Black Vulture     1
Turkey Vulture     3
Mallard     2
Osprey     2
Bald Eagle     1
Red-tailed Hawk     1
Spotted Sandpiper     1
Ring Billed Gull     5
Mourning Dove     1
Yellow-billed Cuckoo     1 (heard only)
Ruby-throated Hummingbird     2
Belted Kingfisher     1 (heard only)
Red-bellied Woodpecker     2
Downy Woodpecker     2
Hairy Woodpecker     1
Northern Flicker     1
Eastern Wood-Pewee     3 (heard only)
Acadian Flycatcher     12
Great Crested Flycatcher     3 (heard only)
White-eyed Vireo     3 
Yellow-throated Vireo     2 (heard only)
Warbling Vireo     1
Red Eyed Vireo     20+
Blue Jay    1
American Crow     2
Fish Crow     1
Northern Rough-winged Swallow     10+
Carolina Chickadee     4
Tufted Titmouse     2
White-breasted Nuthatch     1 (heard only)
Carolina Wren     2
House Wren     1 (heard only)
Blue Gray Gnatcatcher     3 (heard only)
Veery     1 (heard only)
Wood Thrush    5 (heard only)
American Robin     5
Gray Catbird     7
Northern Mockingbird     1
European Starling     1
Cedar Waxwing     20+
Northern Parula     6
Chestnut-sided Warbler     1 (heard only)
Yellow-throated Warbler     1 (heard only)
Blackpoll Warbler     15+
Cerulean Warbler     8 (6 heard, 2 seen)
American Redstart     3
Worm-eating Warbler     1
Ovenbird     4 (heard only)
Common Yellowthroat     1
Canada Warbler     1
Scarlet Tanager     3
Song Sparrow     1 
Northern Cardinal     8
Indigo Bunting     10+
Brown-headed Cowbird     2 (heard only)
Orchard Oriole     3
Baltimore Oriole     2
American Goldfinch     2
House Sparrow     1

Number of Species: 60

Good Birding!

Nico Sarbanes
Baltimore

P.S.  Photos from the Baltimore Bird Club's trip to the Delaware Bay on
5/17, and our trip to NJ yesterday, are up on the site.  
http://www.flickr.com/photos/nicobirdphotos/