Sunday 4/ 5/ 09 Callaway, my home - St Mary's County Maryland
Turkey vulture - 1
Bald eagle - 1 mature
Mourning doves - 3
Common grackles - 7
Eastern bluebirds - 5
White throated sparrows - 12
Song sparrows - 2
Eastern bluebirds - 4
Northern mockingbird - 2
Brown thrasher - 1
Carolina chickadees - 4
Tufted titmouse - 3
House sparrows - 2
House finches - 6
Red belly woodpecker - 1
Sharp shinn hawk - 1
Ruby crowned kinglets - 2
Carolina wrens - 2
Chipping sparrows - 2
Northern cardinals - 20 +
Brown headed cowbird - 2
Red winged blackbird - 1
St George's Island and Piney Point
Osprey - 95 (nearly every platform had 2 birds on them and osprey were all
over the sky and water, what a wonderful sight)
Greater scaup - 1
Mute swan - 1 (St George's)
Eastern bluebirds - 3
Tree swallow - 1
European starling - 1
Turkey vultures - 8
American crow - 1
Mute swans - 2 (one actually sitting on a huge nest ) - Piney Point
Red tailed hawk - 1fish crows - 3
Mallard - 1
Cardinal - 1
Song sparrow -1
Chipping sparrow - 1
Common loon - 2
Great black back gulls - 2
American robin - 1
Eastern bluebirds - 10
Black vultures - 2
Carolina chickadee - 1
Northern mockingbird - 6
Red tailed hawk - 1
Common grackles - 20
Double crested cormorants - 40
Point Lookout
Eastern bluebirds 3
Canada goose - 2
European starlings - 12
Buffleheads - 4
Common loon - 1
Carolina chickadee - 1
Tree swallow - 1
Horned grebes - 4 (got some pictures of one with a fish it caught)
Question: Why do they catch the fish and keep dipping it in the water
before eating??????????????????????
Ruby crowned kinglets - 2 (they seemed to be interested in the clicking
noise my camera makes)
Great blue herons - 30 plus at that special place - they are very busy
building their nest
Bald eagle - 2 mature (one carried a big fish up to the nest)
Field sparrow - 1
Blue gray gnatcatcher - 1
Great blue herons - 2 (flew over road)
White throated sparrows - 15
From 4pm - 7pm I got to witness the most breath taking thing I have ever
seen beyond the birth of my sons.
The double crested cormorants were migrating after spending the day on the
nets I believe called pound nets. They were flying from the nets to the
sandbar just beyond the lighthouse and then just before 7pm they all headed
for Virginia.
What made this so amazing was every 30 to 45 seconds there was 20 to 30
birds flying by the point which totaled from 8,000 to 10,000 birds. Around
40 people besides myself got to witness this amazing site but there appeared
to be no other birders in the group.
Now to add icing to the cake, 500 to 600 brown pelicans also followed the
same route. I have seen Canada goose and snow goose during migration and
also butterflies but I have never seen small groups of birds moving the same
route for hours. I was so excited it felt like I had only been watching
them for about 30 minutes.
Happy Birding to all,
Patricia Viola Rose
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