Yesterday, I led a trip for the Southern Maryland Audubon Society to Calvert Cliffs State Park. There were more birds in the parking lot than for the first half of the walk down toward the beach. At one point, it began to rain which didn't help things at all! However, we scored all 6 woodpeckers including 10 Red-headed Woodpeckers near the boardwalk. One of them was a juvenile with an all dark head. A bonus for those who made it to the Bay were three Brown Pelicans sitting in the water out near some fishing boats. Not a common bird in Calvert County yet.

Last year, Bill Hubick led this trip. When we had arrived at the beach, his phone rang with news of Dave Czaplak's Say's Phoebe. No such luck this year ;)
 
Tyler Bell

California, Maryland 

Location:    Calvert Cliffs State Park
Observation date:    9/28/08
Number of species:    44

Brown Pelican    3
Double-crested Cormorant    120
Great Blue Heron    1
Black Vulture    2
Turkey Vulture    5
Bald Eagle    2
Cooper's Hawk    2
Ring-billed Gull    15
Herring Gull    25
Great Black-backed Gull    50
Chimney Swift    1
Belted Kingfisher    1
Red-headed Woodpecker    10
Red-bellied Woodpecker    5
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker    1
Downy Woodpecker    6
Hairy Woodpecker    1
Northern Flicker (Yellow-shafted)    3
Pileated Woodpecker    2
Eastern Wood-Pewee    3
Eastern Phoebe    2
White-eyed Vireo    1
Blue Jay    11
American Crow    7
swallow sp.    2 (these were specks flying too high to ID)
Carolina Chickadee    12
Tufted Titmouse    11
White-breasted Nuthatch    6
Carolina Wren    7
House Wren    1
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher    4
Eastern Bluebird    3
Wood Thrush    2
American Robin    9
Gray Catbird    3
Brown Thrasher    2
Northern Parula    2
Pine Warbler    3
Black-and-white Warbler    1
American Redstart    2
Common Yellowthroat    5
Northern Cardinal    3
Rose-breasted Grosbeak    1
American Goldfinch    1

This report was generated automatically by eBird v2(http://ebird.org)