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Monday Morning Hawkwatch at Black Walnut Point

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les

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les

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Mon, 19 Oct 2009 13:58:19 -0400

A few members of the Talbot Bird Club converged on Black Walnut Point this
morning, and we were not disappoited.  Full details will be given later, but
the highlights are shown below;

 

Turkey Vultures - a kettle of 170 kept moving up and down the peninsula
through the morning, serving as an antenna to draw many other hawks into our
viewing.

 

Broad Wings  20+

Sharp-shins  20+

Cooper's  20+

Bald Eagles        5

Red-tails    15

Red-shouldered  6

Kestrel       1

Rough-legs   1

Harriers   2

OSPREY  1

 

Common Loon   1  (calling)

Ruby-crowned Kinglets   70+

Eastern Phoebes        20+

Yellow-rumped Warblers  60+

Palm Warblers    2

Brown Thrasher

Blue-headed Vireo  2

Hermit Thrush    1

White-crowned Sparrow   3

White-throated Sparrow  20+

Song Sparrow    16

Swamp Sparrow   1

Chipping Sparrow   4

Junco   2

Eastern Towhee   6

Red-breasted Nuthatch

Brown-headed Nuthatch

 

Weather conditions were much nicer that those of yesterday.

 

LES ROSLUND

TALBOT COUNTY

EASTON, MD