On Sunday March 8 , 2009 13 members and guests of the Talbot County Bird Club visted Wye Island near Queenstown in Queen Annes County in quest of late waterfowl and new arrivials . weather was great Trip leader Danny Poet led the group to our regular spots were we encountered 55 Species highligts were 6 Woodpecker species and newly arrived Ospreys none seen on Saturday afternoon when I was scouting out the place . Lowlights No Great Blue Herons , Could not relocate the 1 Fox Sparrow seen there on saturday 3 - 7 - 09 and 2 Mute Swan . The other Lowlight was the that during last mondays Snowstorm the the 270 year old American Holly located on the Island lost two Major and 2 medum size limbs all on one side of the tree . Bird list below numbers are estimated
Double Crested Cormorants 12 flyovers in two flocks
Tundra Swan 30
Mute Swan 2
Canada Geese 1,000
wood Duck 2
Black Duck 8
Mallard 2
Bufflehead 30
canvasback 3
Lesser Scaup 25
Common Merganser 1 drake
Black Vulture
Turkey Vulture
OSPREY 3
Bald Eagle 3 Adults
Red Tailed Hawk 1
Accipter Species 1
Killdeer 3
Ring Billed Gull
Greater Black backed Gull 2
Herring Gull 1
Red Bellied woodpecker 6
Yellow Bellied Sapsucker 1
Downy woodpecker 2
Hairy woodpecker 1
Northern Flicker 3
Pileated woodpecker 2
Blue Jay 12
American Crow 5
Fish Crow 2
Carolina Chickadee 1
Tufted Titmouse 2
White Breasted Nuthatch 1
Carolina Wren 3
Ruby Crowned kinglet 1
Eastern Bluebird 8 total a group of 2 males were fighting and rolling around in the
road being cheered on by two females interesting to watch
Hermit Thrush 1
Robin 4
Mockingbird 3
Brown Thrasher 1
Starling
Pine Warbler 1 singing
Cardinal 5
Eastern Towhee 1
Field Sparrow 2
Savannah Sparrow 2
Song Sparrow 3
Swamp Sparrow 2
White Throated Sparrow 35
Dark eyed Junco 10
Red winged Blackbird there was a huge mixed blackbird flock roughly 2,000
Grackle birds mostly Grackles 90% the other 10% being Redwings
Brown - headed Cowbird and Cowbirds with Redwings being the larger number in that
House Sparrow 2
Seen by only one person in the group so not on offical list
Winter wren 2 Lester Coble wye Island
Kestrel 1 Danny Poet on powerline next to Hunters Oak Golf course on my way
Home
Horned Lark 2 Herd by Jan Reese only
Happy Birding
Danny Poet
Queenstown, Maryland
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