Hello Everyone, 

Did some life bird chasing this weekend. I went to Centennial Lake in Columbia to add Whitewinged Crossbills on Saturday and Lakeside business park in Edgewood for Probable Trumpeter Swans Monday ( I havent read of the confimation yet  though i certainly didnt see any orange on the bills, Good lighting up close views.Thank you to Marcie Stutzman for her imput about the Swans  on Sundays posting .  Along the ways i made pitstops at Nursery road pond Linthicum ( to check on Eagles ) , Southwest Area Park , Baltimore Highlands , Key bridge toll Plaza , Oxygen Pond, 1 mile after Key Bridge , and Otter Point viewing  / picnic area Route 40 Edgewood , .



Nursery road pond 
Bald Eagle    Pair on nest 
Cooper Hawk  1    sitting in tree closest to business park .
Canada goose  5
Green winged teal    5
Hooded Merganser   2


Southwest area park   4:30 pm. Saturday 
Bald Eagle     1    Likely same one from Nursery road 
Red shouldered Hawk  1
American Black Duck   5
Redwinged blackbird   30
Common Grackle        10
American robin      20

Key Bridge toll plaza

Canvasback      50
Bufflehead      10
Osprey      ( oh oops no thats next month !! )speaking of next month Blackwater Eagle Festival March 14 . Mark your Calendar 
Oxygen pond 

American coot    7
Redtailed hawk    2

Lakeside business park 
Trumpeter Swan    probable 2 
Ringedneck duck       8
Ringnecked duck       8  yes im at work and  act like i have nothing to do . cant get out of that 3 day weekend . 
Otterpoint Picnic area 

Common Merganser     91
Bald Eagle     2   one adult sitting in trees at the Estuary center. one juvenile scouting water . 
Canada Goose      10







 

> location:     Centennial Lake  11:00 - 1:30
> Observation date:     2/14/09
> Number of species:     7
> 
> Long-tailed Duck     1
> Red-shouldered Hawk     1
> Northern Flicker     2
> Blue Jay     2
> Yellow-rumped Warbler     1
> Dark-eyed Junco     20
> WHITEWINGED CROSSBILL     4  not being very cooperative .came and went 3 times for maybe one minute stays in my 2 and a half hour stay. all four took a direct flight across the lake . i did a search of that side of the lake and a few neighborhood streets but didnt find them again . 
> 
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Saundra Byrd 
baltimore