As part of the Caroline County Bird Club's  fall bird Count   Dawn Brownlee Tomasso  and her husband Rob ,  Steve Westre , Mike Price  and Danny  Poet  counted birds in Tuckahoe State park  and Ridgely  on 9 - 20  we ended with   66 species . We were  at the lake at one spot early in the morning   for about 1.5 hrs as birds came and went  it was a great migration day. 

highlights below 


Wild Turkey    16
White eyed vireo    2
Green winged Teal  1
Wood Duck   4
Mallard      1         Ridgely     sewage lagoon     
Killdeer      8          most at above 
Pectoral Sandpiper      2   Ridgely sewage lagoon 
Lesser yellowlegs 2           as above 
Least Sandpiper       3 above 
Semipalmated Sandpiper     5      above
American    Pipit       1      above            
Osprey         1
Red Shouldered Hawk     1
 
Blue Jay 24
Phoebe     2
Eastern Kingbird      2
Eastern Wood Pewee      1
Downy Woodpecker     2 
Red Bellied Woodpecker     5
Flicker     4
Hairy Woodpecker      4
Pileated Woodpecker    1
Chickadee     15
Titmouse       6
White Breasted Nuthatch     2
Ruby Throated  Hummingbird      6
Belted Kingfisher      1
Brown Thrasher    2
Mockingbird       1
Catbird             4
Eastern Bluebird     5
Robin       10
Veery         1
Cardinal      9
Blue Grosbeak         1
Tree Swallow      166
Barn Swallow        1   on ground  in a driveway 
Cedar Waxwing     10 
Baltimore Oriole      1
Common  Yellow Throat     3
Northern Parula     1
Redstart   3
Black And White Warbler     3
Black throated Blue Warbler     5     
Blue winged warbler       1
Magnolia Warbler   1 
Song  Sparrow      1
Indigo Bunting     9


Happy Birding 
Danny Poet 
Queenstown, Maryland
 

    



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