Earlier this evening Jim Peters led Judy Harding and I on evening bird walk
at Fort McHenry. Five minutes after we started Judy spotted two female
Red-necked Phalarope swimming near the seawall on the west side of the Fort
grounds. As the birds approached the seawall were able to view them at close
range (at approx 35 ft) with Jimıs scope. We noticed that the birds had not
fully reached there breeding plumage. The birds flushed twice (not because
of the 3 birders or the 14 joggers) and flew wide around the open water and
then around the Fort.
Jim will be at the Fort in the morning and will call in an update. The Fort
is now open from 8 am to 8 pm.
Location: Fort McHenry NHM
Observation date: 5/27/09
Number of species: 40
Canada Goose 17
Mallard 7
Double-crested Cormorant 6
Great Blue Heron 1
Green Heron 1
Black-crowned Night-Heron 3
Osprey 3
Killdeer 1
Spotted Sandpiper 3
Red-necked Phalarope 2
Ring-billed Gull 8
Herring Gull 6
Great Black-backed Gull 4
Least Tern 2
Common Tern 3
Rock Pigeon 2
Mourning Dove 4
Chimney Swift 7
Eastern Kingbird 3
Warbling Vireo 2
Tree Swallow 28
Northern Rough-winged Swallow 4
Bank Swallow 1
Barn Swallow 6
American Robin 10
Gray Catbird 1
Northern Mockingbird 5
European Starling 11
Cedar Waxwing 13
Yellow Warbler 1
Blackpoll Warbler 2
American Redstart 1
Common Yellowthroat 1
Swamp Sparrow 1
Red-winged Blackbird 5
Common Grackle 11
Brown-headed Cowbird 1
Orchard Oriole 4
House Finch 1
House Sparrow 5
This report was generated automatically by eBird v2(http://ebird.org)
Keith Eric Costley
Randallstown, Baltimore County, MD |