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Re: Sugarloaf CBC sector 6 Highlights (and lowlights...)

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Rick Sussman

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Mon, 4 Jan 2010 09:26:28 -0500

Ditto on both counts Gail. I thought the weather was really bad on Saturday but Sunday seemed worse by far. And it also made me pause during the day while we were out, how resilient the animals are that live out in this. From the tiniest birds to the deer, it must be brutal at times.  Rick Sussman
Woodbine, MD


Kudos to all who did this count (and others the same weekend) in such
errible conditions. Several times during the day I wondered how some of
hese tiny birds manage to survive -- like that single, lively Ruby-crowned
lashing his red spot at me along Lilypons Road!





-----Original Message-----
From: Gail Mackiernan <>
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Sent: Mon, Jan 4, 2010 8:38 am
Subject: [MDOSPREY] Sugarloaf CBC sector 6 Highlights (and lowlights...)


Hi all --
Despite the brutal day we ended up with about the same number of species in
ector 6 as in previous good-weather years -- 58.
Highlights:
35 American Black Duck (Thanksgiving Farms pond)
 Green-winged Teal (")
0 Wild Turkeys (Lilypons)
 Bald Eagles (2 at least were different birds)
1 Yellow-bellied Sapsuckers (high #)
 Brown Creepers
 Golden-crowned Kinglets
 Ruby-crowned Kinglet
3 eastern Bluebirds (high #, they seemed to be everywhere)
 Hermit Thrush
 Myrtle Warblers (old Monocacy Bottom Rd)
0 (!) White-crowned Sparrows (mostly at Claggett Center)
 American Tree Sparrows (Lilypons)
 Chipping Sparrows(Claggett)
also Field, Swamp, White-throat, Song and Junco)
 Eastern Meadowlarks (Lilypons Rd.)
I also had a Raven overhead along Rt. 270 en route home (in Sector 8). He
ame gliding in over the freeway, and, hitting a sudden updraft of wind over
he road, did a complete and graceful barrel roll and continued on...
Lowlights (that is, never missed before):
A total dip on Horned Larks and thus no Lapland Longspurs (it appears that
he heavy pre-Christmas snow, which still lay along every roadside, has
oved these open-field birds out and away from their normal haunts.)
No Snipe, Kingfisher or Phoebe.
Kudos to all who did this count (and others the same weekend) in such
errible conditions. Several times during the day I wondered how some of
hese tiny birds manage to survive -- like that single, lively Ruby-crowned
lashing his red spot at me along Lilypons Road!
Gail Mackiernan
olesville, MD