Location:     Oxbow Lake
Observation date:     3/14/10
Notes:     Overnight on Mar 13, the gage height for the Little Patuxent River at 
Savage, MD reached 11.5 feet (http://waterdata.usgs.gov/md/nwis/uv/?site_no=01594000&agency_cd=USGS). 
What that means is the Little Patuxent flooded back into Oxbow Lake, So the lake 
water level was raised, but is already retreating back into the outlet channel 
because the beaver dam remains unrepaired. Last week there was more of the lake 
bottom exposed as mudflats than I had ever seen. As soon as the rain and 
flooding from upstream ends, the Oxbow will probably have mudflats exposed again 
until the beavers repair the dam. Jay Sheppard visited late afternoon and 
reported these birds as well as one Red Fox.
Number of species:     14

Canada Goose     200
Wood Duck     18
Mallard     50
Ring-necked Duck     9
Bald Eagle     2
Red-shouldered Hawk     2
Ring-billed Gull     25
Belted Kingfisher     1
Red-bellied Woodpecker     1
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker     1
American Crow     12
Fish Crow     12
Eastern Bluebird     4
Red-winged Blackbird     150

This report was generated automatically by eBird v2(http://ebird.org)

Marcy Stutzman
Russett, MD