Saturday morning Bill Hubick, Tom Field, Ron Gutberlet, and myself started a
Caroline County Big Day at the marsh surrounding Poplar Neck Rd around
6:30am. Even though we fought rain and fog the team managed to see/hear 90
species by 7:00pm. Lack of waterfowl species and some misses like Catbird,
House Wren, and Sapsucker caused us to miss our 100 species goal.
Highlights included:
(all birds seen/heard in Caroline County, MD)
Poplar Neck marshes
Great Horned Owl -- 3
Sora -- 1
Virginia Rail -- 3
King Rail -- 1
Wilson's Snipe -- 1
Peregrine Falcon -- 1
American Pipit
Pine Siskin -- 3
Tanyard marshes
Dunlin -- 37
Least Sandpiper -- 2
Greater Yellowlegs -- 1
Snow Goose -- 1
Green-winged Teal -- 38
Forster's Tern -- 1
Federalsburg waterfront
Fox Sparrow -- 1
Ridgely WWTP
Ruddy Duck -- 12
White-crowned Sparrow -- 7
Ninetown Road fields
American Pipits -- 90
Horned Lark -- 30
Tuckahoe SP
American Bittern -- 1 (flew into QA county)
Rusty Blackbird -- 1 (heard in QA county, not counted in the Big Day total)
Adkins Arboretum
White-crowned Sparrow -- 4
Palm Warbler -- 1
Northern Caroline County
Vesper Sparrow -- 1
Woodcock -- 2 (peenting)
Jim Brighton
Easton, MD
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