Since all of my previous birding trips to St. Mary's County have 
been to Point Lookout in the middle of winter, I decided that it 
was way past time that I went down to look for breeding birds.  So, 
starting at the northern end of the county about 7:00, I spent about 
90 minutes doing some roadside birding on the side roads off of 
Route 5.  Eventually I ended up at Greenwell State Park, on the 
Patuxent River west of Hollywood.  Although this park consists 
mainly of agricultural fields and scrub habitat, with a very modest 
amount of hardwood forest, I saw a nice diversity of birds
nonetheless.  My more-or-less complete list for the park follows.

Greenwell State Park 
Hollywood, St. Mary's County, MD  
06/20/08

Great Blue Heron
Osprey
Bald Eagle - one immature
Red-bellied Woodpecker
Downy Woodpecker
Eastern Wood-Pewee
Acadian Flycatcher
Great Crested Flycatcher
White-eyed Vireo
Red-eyed Vireo
American Crow
Horned Lark - heard, in bean field along Steer Horn Neck Rd
Barn Swallow
Carolina Chickadee
Tufted Titmouse
White-breasted Nuthatch (my first 3-nuthatch county!)
Carolina Wren
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
Eastern Bluebird
Northern Mockingbird
Brown Thrasher
Northern Parula
Prairie Warbler
Common Yellowthroat
Yellow-breasted Chat - abundant, one well-seen
Scarlet Tanager
Eastern Towhee
Chipping Sparrow
Field Sparrow
Grasshopper Sparrow - heard, in grassy field opposite park entrance
Song Sparrow
Northern Cardinal
Blue Grosbeak - one male well-seen
Indigo Bunting
Red-winged Blackbird
Common Grackle
Brown-headed Cowbird
American Goldfinch

Pretty good birding!

Elaine Hendricks
Greenbelt, MD  (PG County)



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