Hello Everyone, 
          I was one of the lucky ones able to go to Poplar Island on Tuesday and see the Snowy Owl . It was a life bird for me . The bird was very cooperative sitting on an old broken up barge for an hour show . Thank you to Dan Haas for organizing the trip . A few notable areas closer to home this week . 

Quarterfield road sewage pond behind new Super Walmart

Rock Dove 50
Mallard   10
Killdeer   2
American crow 2
Ringbilled gull 20

Horsefarm on Andover road 

Redshouldered hawk  1( watching the same birds i was from the other side of the ballfield . )
Yellowbellied sapsucker 1  ( a tree about 12 foot high in the first horseyard that was full of small holes. )
Northern mocking bird 1
Blue jay        1
Carolina wren   2
House finch     2
Yellow rumped warbler  2
Northern cardinal    5
Mourning dove      5
Brownheaded cowbird   10
House sparrow         20
Darkeyed junco        30
European starling     50
  
Horses    6

Pond at the corner of Andover road and Hammondsferry road 
Mallard             70
Ring billed gull    20
Mixed breed ducks   10
White domestic goose 2
Black duck           1

Southwest Area Park  in Baltimore highlands birding by car 

RINGNECKED PHEASANT    1   funny story ... first the fox crossed the gravel road and a few minutes later the pheasant just casually walked across the road in the same route as the fox as if he wasnt worried of the fox at all . Was he following the fox ?  
Coppers hawk       1
Black duck         4
Great blue heron    1
American robin     20 

Saundra Byrd 

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