Stream sampling today at SERC. My excuse to go birding on company time :) Didn't spend much time on the 120 foot meteorological tower trying to bird as the wind was howling at 0900. It was quite unpleasant up there! Down on the ground, it was much nicer. Best birds were a single Cackling Goose mixed in with the 130 Canada Geese at the pond near one of the stream samplers, Eastern Phoebe, near the same sampler, and a Fox Sparrow which I caught out of the corner of my eye driving slowly along the back road. I thought it was a Hermit Thrush but was happy to get a Foxy instead.
 
Tyler Bell

California, Maryland 



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Location:    Smithsonian Environmental Research Center
Observation date:    11/25/08
Notes:    stream sampling at SERC
Number of species:    30

Cackling Goose (Richardson's)    1
Canada Goose    130
American Black Duck    16
Ruddy Duck    175
Great Blue Heron    2
Black Vulture    11
Turkey Vulture    12
Red-tailed Hawk    3
Mourning Dove    4
Belted Kingfisher    1
Red-bellied Woodpecker    4
Downy Woodpecker    4
Hairy Woodpecker    3
Northern Flicker    1
Eastern Phoebe    1
Blue Jay    4
American Crow    27
Carolina Chickadee    7
Tufted Titmouse    3
White-breasted Nuthatch    1
Carolina Wren    5
Eastern Bluebird    2
American Robin    6
Eastern Towhee    7
Fox Sparrow    1
Song Sparrow    1
White-throated Sparrow    30
Dark-eyed Junco (Slate-colored)    2
Northern Cardinal    11
blackbird sp.    150
House Finch    14
American Goldfinch    9

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