I took a trip through Calvert County today. Northern Gannets and Bonaparte's Gulls at all of the Bay locations. My abridged lists are below: 




Location:     Shady Oaks Turf Farm, Anne Arundel County, West River, MD 
Horned Lark     4 (Thanks to the post by Dave Powell and the tip from Joanne Howl) 


Location:     North Beach 
Surf Scoter     2 
Long-tailed Duck     6 
Bufflehead     10 
Northern Gannet     4 
Bonaparte's Gull     20 
Swamp Sparrow     2 


Location:     Chesapeake Beach Marina 
Long-tailed Duck     6 
Bufflehead     20 
Cooper's Hawk     1 
Bonaparte's Gull     50 
Laughing Gull     1 
Great Black-backed Gull     30 (low count, most out over the bay) 
Fish Crow     1 


Location:     Patuxent River--Smoky Road, Huntingtown, MD 
Bald Eagle     1 
dipped on the Horned Lark - too many hunters 


Location:     Calvert Cliffs State Park 
Wood Duck     1 
American Black Duck     8 
Bufflehead     10 
Northern Gannet     12 
Great Blue Heron     2 
Bonaparte's Gull     12 
Hairy Woodpecker     1 
Brown Creeper     1 
Winter Wren     1 
Ruby-crowned Kinglet     2 
Hermit Thrush     2 



Location:     Lloyd Bowen Road 
Red-shouldered Hawk     1 
American Kestrel     1 
White-breasted Nuthatch     1 
Brown-headed Nuthatch     4 
Swamp Sparrow     1 


Location:     Jefferson Patterson Park & Museum 
Bufflehead     20 
Ruddy Duck     200 
Common Loon     1 
Horned Grebe     1 
European Starling     250 
Yellow-rumped Warbler (Myrtle)     18 



Location:     Burch--Rte. 231 bridge 
Mallard     60 
American Coot     18 


  


Joe Hanfman 

Columbia, MD