Hi all,
I spent the morning birding Point Lookout, when I first arrived, I spotted
an eider at the north end of the dog beach north of the jetty, it was a good
ways off, but I was able to relocate it after walking to the jetty and get a
couple of documentation quality pictures of a female KING EIDER. After
about an hour of scoping from there, I headed back to the causeway to meet
up with J.B. Churchill, we continued on down and through the park without
too many surprises, there were good numbers of BLACK and SURF SCOTERs, but
we dipped on White-winged. As of about noon, the eider was still being
seen. J.B. and I parted ways after that, and he continued on to Schoolhouse
pond and surrounding areas.
Location: Point Lookout State Park
Observation date: 1/18/10
Notes: The Myrtle numbers were multiple flocks along the road to and
from the point, the maximum was 29 in the field just south of the visitors
center. the KIEI was a female.
Number of species: 40
Canada Goose 5
Mute Swan 5
Tundra Swan 32
King Eider 1
Surf Scoter 105
Black Scoter 90
Bufflehead 130
Greater Scaup 49
Common Goldeneye 55
Red-breasted Merganser 11
Horned Grebe 6
Bald Eagle 5
Red-shouldered Hawk 1
Red-tailed Hawk 2
Dunlin 15
Bonaparte's Gull 2
Ring-billed Gull 20
Herring Gull 30
Great Black-backed Gull 5
Red-bellied Woodpecker 1
Downy Woodpecker 2
Northern Flicker (Yellow-shafted) 1
American Crow 7
Carolina Chickadee 3
Brown-headed Nuthatch 3
Carolina Wren 5
Winter Wren 1
Eastern Bluebird 13
Hermit Thrush 1
Northern Mockingbird 3
European Starling 130
Cedar Waxwing 5
Yellow-rumped Warbler (Myrtle) 65
Savannah Sparrow 1
Song Sparrow 3
Swamp Sparrow 4
White-throated Sparrow 25
Dark-eyed Junco (Slate-colored) 5
Northern Cardinal 6
Red-winged Blackbird 15
American Goldfinch 1
This report was generated automatically by eBird v2(http://ebird.org)
Good Birding!
Mikey Lutmerding
Croom, MD |