Joe Byrnes, Jeff Culler, and myself birded Charles County today 4/1/09. We had 76 species in Charles County.
Our most notable birds were:
BRANT (Atlantic type), Long-tailed Duck, Red-throated Loon, and Northern Gannet at Cobb Island.
BLACK SCOTER - female at Popes Creek.
Tundra Swans and Northern Shovelers at Allens Fresh.
Notable species are listed below:
Location: Smallwood State Park
Gadwall 12
American Wigeon 5
Lesser Scaup 1
Ruddy Duck 10
Pied-billed Grebe 7
Double-crested Cormorant 8
Osprey 7
Bald Eagle 2
Red-shouldered Hawk 1
American Coot 200
Great Black-backed Gull 1
Forster's Tern 1
Brown Thrasher 1
Cedar Waxwing 50
Yellow-rumped Warbler (Myrtle) 4
Location: Port Tobacco, Charles County, MD, US
Wood Duck 3
Gadwall 7
Green-winged Teal 15
Greater Yellowlegs 1
Pileated Woodpecker 1
Brown Thrasher 2
Eastern Towhee 2
Chipping Sparrow 8
Location: Pope's Creek
Greater Scaup 13
Lesser Scaup 8
BLACK SCOTER 1 (female)
Bufflehead 20
Horned Grebe 17
Tree Swallow 8
Northern Rough-winged Swallow 2
Location: Morgantown, Charles County, MD, US
Wood Duck 2
Surf Scoter 9
Horned Grebe 12
Northern Gannet 8
Laughing Gull 3
Location: Cobb Island
BRANT (Atlantic) 1
Greater Scaup 6
Surf Scoter 8
Long-tailed Duck 7
Common Goldeneye 1
Red-throated Loon 1
Common Loon 6
Pied-billed Grebe 1
Horned Grebe 22
Northern Gannet 4
Osprey 8
Laughing Gull 1
Forster's Tern 2
Brown Thrasher 1
Pine Siskin 2
Location: Allens Fresh
Tundra Swan 13
Northern Shoveler 2
Bald Eagle 6
Greater Yellowlegs 3
Forster's Tern 4
Tree Swallow 10
Location: Benedict--Rte. 231 bridge
Lesser Scaup 8
Ruddy Duck 200
Horned Grebe 2
American Kestrel 1
American Coot 2
Great Black-backed Gull 1
Forster's Tern 1
Good birding,
Joe Hanfman
Columbia, MD |