Bill Hubick and I got out of work early yesterday and spent the afternoon birding primarily Harford County with some Cecil County sprinkled in.
Havre de Grace Low tide was around 5:00pm, so that became the main object that our other birding acitivities revolved around. We started out at Tydings scanning the healthy numbers of terns and gulls for anything unusual, then went on to Perryville Community Park in Cecil, returned to Harford to bird Swan Harbor, made it back to Tydings for low tide, and finally ended the day birding the Susquehanna from Lapidum, hoping for a Common Nighthawk on the Cecil side to get Bill that much closer to getting a closeout.
Highlights at Tydings were a LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULL (credit to Bill, and thanks to Matt for helping age this bird), 137 Forster's Terns, 9 Caspians; at Perryville, one Pied-billed Grebe, one LEAST TERN, three BLACK TERNS (one adult seen flying, spotted by Bill, then two juvies roosting with Forster's Terns a couple hundred yards out from the point of the park), seven migrating Eastern Kingbirds, 54 Bank Swallows; at Swan Harbor, one migrating Orchard Oriole, seen while perched on a corn stalk; at Lapidum, one very vocal EASTERN SCREECH-OWL heard as we were getting out of the car.
Full lists:
Location: Tydings Memorial Park, Havre de Grace
Observation date: 8/20/09
Notes: Combined two checklists:<br><br>From the marina: 4:20-4:40pm<br>From the the apt complex: 6:15-6:50pm
Number of species: 29
Canada Goose 55
Wood Duck 5
Mallard 118
Double-crested Cormorant 1
Great Blue Heron 11
Great Egret 1
Green Heron 1
Osprey 2
Bald Eagle 6
Solitary Sandpiper 1
Least Sandpiper 1
Laughing Gull 1
Ring-billed Gull 56
Herring Gull 22
LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULL 1
Great Black-backed Gull 2
Caspian Tern 9
Forster's Tern 137
Belted Kingfisher 1
Eastern Kingbird 2
American Crow 2
Fish Crow 2
Purple Martin 20 conservative estimate
Bank Swallow 5 probably more
Barn Swallow 30 conservative estimate
Carolina Wren 1
European Starling 1
American Goldfinch 1
House Sparrow 2
Location: Perryville Community Park
Observation date: 8/20/09
Number of species: 34
Canada Goose 10
Mallard 35 est
Pied-billed Grebe 1
Double-crested Cormorant 16
Great Blue Heron 5
Turkey Vulture 1
Osprey 1
Bald Eagle 1
peep sp. 12 Most likely LESA - too distant.
Ring-billed Gull 24
Herring Gull 6
LEAST TERN 1
Caspian Tern 4
BLACK TERN 3
Forster's Tern 47
Mourning Dove 1
Red-bellied Woodpecker 1
Downy Woodpecker 1
Eastern Wood-Pewee 1
Eastern Kingbird 7 probably many more
Blue Jay 2
crow sp. 1
Purple Martin 70 probably many more
Bank Swallow 54
Barn Swallow 10
Carolina Chickadee 1
Tufted Titmouse 1
Carolina Wren 1
American Robin 1
Northern Mockingbird 1
European Starling 20
Northern Cardinal 2
Brown-headed Cowbird 2
American Goldfinch 1
Location: Swan Harbor Farm Park
Observation date: 8/20/09
Number of species: 20
Canada Goose 1
Mallard 1
Great Blue Heron 1
Bald Eagle 1
Mourning Dove 6
Eastern Kingbird 2
Purple Martin 4
Barn Swallow 6
Marsh Wren 1
Eastern Bluebird 1
American Robin 1
Northern Mockingbird 2
Common Yellowthroat 1
Chipping Sparrow 1
Song Sparrow 3
Indigo Bunting 4
Red-winged Blackbird 4
Orchard Oriole 1 perched on a corn stalk
House Finch 1
American Goldfinch 2
Location: Port Deposit
Observation date: 8/20/09
Notes: As observed from Lapidum
Number of species: 5
Great Blue Heron 2
Black Vulture 2
Turkey Vulture 3
Bald Eagle 1
Ring-billed Gull 1
Location: Lapidum
Observation date: 8/20/09
Number of species: 9
Canada Goose 46
Mallard 2
Great Blue Heron 6
Bald Eagle 2
Solitary Sandpiper 1
Eastern Screech-Owl 1
Belted Kingfisher 1
Northern Mockingbird 1
Northern Cardinal 1
Robert Ostrowski
Crofton, MD
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