22 people joined me for a Howard County Bird Club field trip to Centennial Lake this morning. The highlight was 20 White-winged Crossbills near the parking lot to the left of the Rt 108 entrance. Thes e were life birds for at least 4 of the participants. 








Location:     Centennial Lake 
Observation date:     3/8/09; 8:00 am - 10:45 am 
Number of species:     39 

Canada Goose     65 
Wood Duck     4 
Mallard     9 
Ring-necked Duck     5 
Bufflehead     3 
Hooded Merganser     1 
Great Blue Heron     2 
Red-shouldered Hawk     1 
Ring-billed Gull     15 
Mourning Dove     14 
Belted Kingfisher     2 
Red-bellied Woodpecker     4 
Downy Woodpecker     1 
Northern Flicker (Yellow-shafted)     2 
Eastern Phoebe     1 
Blue Jay     7 
American Crow     20 
Fish Crow     4 
Carolina Chickadee     5 
Tufted Titmouse     3 
White-breasted Nuthatch     4 
Carolina Wren     5 
Golden-crowned Kinglet     2 
Eastern Bluebird     1 
American Robin     96 
Northern Mockingbird     3 
European Starling     X 
Yellow-rumped Warbler (Myrtle)     1 
Eastern Towhee     1 
Song Sparrow     6 
White-throated Sparrow     20 
Dark-eyed Junco (Slate-colored)     4 
Northern Cardinal     16 
Red-winged Blackbird     800 
Common Grackle     150 
House Finch     4 
White-winged Crossbill     20 
American Goldfinch     1 
House Sparrow     X 

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


Joe Hanfman 

Columbia, MD