Hi Everyone,
I spent today birding water areas between easternmost Washington Co. and a few locations in Carroll Co. It was a very slow day, but I did have some lingering waterfowl, as well as my first-of-the-year BLUE-WINGED TEAL and NORTHERN ROUGH-WINGED SWALLOWs (my earliest, and my first in March). Below are the abridged eBird reports.
Weverton (Washington Co.)
(Frederick Co. list similar)
Wood Duck--4
Common Merganser--4
Double-crested Cormorant--5
Great Blue Heron--2
Tree Swallow--34
Yellow-rumped Warbler (Myrtle)--2
Kershner's Pond
Canada Goose--9
Tundra Swan--1
American Black Duck--72
American Black Duck x Mallard (hybrid)--2
Mallard--34
Ring-necked Duck--28
Bufflehead--2
Common Merganser--3
Ruddy Duck--7
Bald Eagle--1
Eastern Phoebe--2
Tree Swallow--5
Point of Rocks Bridge
Double-crested Cormorant--5
Great Blue Heron--2
Pileated Woodpecker--1
Lilypons Water Gardens
Wood Duck--2
Blue-winged Teal--2
Green-winged Teal (American)--3
Great Blue Heron--4
Black Vulture--1
Turkey Vulture--3
Wilson's Snipe--9
Eastern Phoebe--1
Fish Crow--1
Swamp Sparrow--1
Oland Road
Northern Harrier--1
C&O Canal--Mouth of the Monocacy (Montgomery County)
(2-hour river watch) (Frederick Co. list similar)
Wood Duck--1
Gadwall--6. Wigeon and Gadwall flock would drift downstream into Montgomery slowly and then fly back north.
American Wigeon--10
Mallard--2
Green-winged Teal (American)--3--Flying upriver
Common Merganser--4
Double-crested Cormorant--12
Great Blue Heron--1
Black Vulture--6
Turkey Vulture--7
Bald Eagle--2
Red-shouldered Hawk--1
Northern Flicker (Yellow-shafted)--1
Eastern Phoebe--2--Very vocal
Tree Swallow--8
Northern Rough-winged Swallow--2
swallow sp.--15
Eastern Bluebird--5. One with nesting material.
Yellow-rumped Warbler (Myrtle)--3
Dark-eyed Junco (Slate-colored)--2
Piney Run Park
Canada Goose--14
Gadwall--5
American Wigeon--7
American Black Duck--3
Mallard--13
Ring-necked Duck--11
Green-winged Teal (American)--2
Bufflehead--2
Common Merganser--9
Pied-billed Grebe--1
Horned Grebe--4
Double-crested Cormorant--1
Song Sparrow--1
White-throated Sparrow--2
Good birding,
Bill
Bill Hubick
Pasadena, Maryland
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