Hello everyone,
I made a brief stop to Mt. Calvert and a little longer one to Merkle on the Patuxent today. Notables at Mt. Calvert: five Blue-winged Teal, four Caspian Terns, 12 Forster's Terns, and a single Greater Yellowlegs. At Merkle there were two BLACK-CROWNED NIGHT-HERONS in the back of the little pond on the left as you are walking towards the river from the Visitor's Center. Also, seven Greater Yellowlegs, three Lesser Yellowlegs, three Horned Larks, four Purple Martins, one Palm Warbler, and one YELLOW-THROATED WARBLER.
Here are my full lists:
Location: Patuxent River Park--Mt. Calvert
Observation date: 4/16/09
Number of species: 23
Mallard 2
Blue-winged Teal 5
Green-winged Teal 5
Pied-billed Grebe 1
Double-crested Cormorant 4
Turkey Vulture 1
Osprey 4
American Kestrel 1
Greater Yellowlegs 1
Caspian Tern 4
Forster's Tern 12
Blue Jay 2
Fish Crow 34
Tree Swallow 20
Barn Swallow 2
Northern Mockingbird 1
Brown Thrasher 1
European Starling 5
Cedar Waxwing 4
Eastern Towhee 2
Chipping Sparrow 2
Song Sparrow 2
Northern Cardinal 1
Location: Merkle Wildlife Sanctuary
Observation date: 4/16/09
Number of species: 39
Canada Goose 43
Green-winged Teal 6
Great Blue Heron 4
Black-crowned Night-Heron 2
Turkey Vulture 3
Osprey 4
Bald Eagle 1
Cooper's Hawk 1
Red-shouldered Hawk 2
Red-tailed Hawk 1
Killdeer 1
Greater Yellowlegs 7
Lesser Yellowlegs 3
Mourning Dove 1
Red-bellied Woodpecker 1
Blue Jay 1
American Crow 2
Horned Lark 3
Purple Martin 4
Tree Swallow 45
Northern Rough-winged Swallow 1
Tufted Titmouse 2
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher 4
Eastern Bluebird 4
Northern Mockingbird 3
Brown Thrasher 2
European Starling 14
Yellow-rumped Warbler (Myrtle) 4
Yellow-throated Warbler 1
Palm Warbler (Yellow) 1
Eastern Towhee 8
Chipping Sparrow 18
Field Sparrow 3
White-throated Sparrow 3
Dark-eyed Junco (Slate-colored) 11
Northern Cardinal 4
Red-winged Blackbird 100
Brown-headed Cowbird 3
American Goldfinch 1
Robert Ostrowski
Bowie, MD
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