Today at the Little Patuxent Oxbow Lake Nature Preserve. The water level continues to rise - the Wilson's Snipes mud flats and possible Rusty Blackbird habitat are almost gone. The beavers are certainly industrious and hopefully enforcing the main dam against what Mother Nature might rain down on them. The lake created by the beavers has supported several mammals this year: beavers, river otters, muskrats, raccoons, fox and deer.

Location: Oxbow Lake
Observation date: 3/31/09
Number of species:     35

Canada Goose     10
Wood Duck     12
American Black Duck     2
Mallard     10
Blue-winged Teal     2
Green-winged Teal (American)     18
Ring-necked Duck     10
Hooded Merganser     6
Pied-billed Grebe     1     Breeding plumage
Great Blue Heron     20     This is the time of year when the mature herons 
start bringing the immature to the lake to teach them to fish. Many years ago, 
there was a heron colony here.
Bald Eagle     1     Immature Bald Eagle with transmitter.
Cooper's Hawk     1
Red-shouldered Hawk     2
Red-tailed Hawk     1
Greater Yellowlegs     2
Ring-billed Gull     5
Red-bellied Woodpecker     2
Downy Woodpecker     1
Northern Flicker     1
Pileated Woodpecker     1
Eastern Phoebe     2
Blue Jay     1
American Crow     12
Tree Swallow     45
Carolina Chickadee     6
Tufted Titmouse     10
White-breasted Nuthatch     2
Carolina Wren     1
Winter Wren     1
Eastern Bluebird     4
American Robin     2
Yellow-rumped Warbler (Myrtle)     25
Pine Warbler     1
Song Sparrow     2
Red-winged Blackbird     4

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

Marcy Stutzman
Russett, MD