Highlights from yesterday morning at the Little Patuxent Oxbow Lake Nature Preserve:

5 RUSTY BLACKBIRD
15 WILSON'S SNIPE
1 GREATER YELLOWLEGS

If you happen to go looking for RUSTY BLACKBIRD, I'd suggest first looking in the northeast corner early in the morning - when I saw them I was standing at lake level and they were just to my left along the shoreline.

Location:     Oxbow Lake
Observation date:     3/21/10
Notes:     Jay Sheppard and I met down at the Little Patuxent Oxbow Lake Nature 
Preserve. I had 5 RUSTY BLACKBIRDS one day after Ira Simon captured a picture of one.
Number of species:     33

Canada Goose     10
Wood Duck     12
Gadwall     2
American Wigeon     3
American Black Duck     4
Mallard     12
Green-winged Teal (American)     12
Ring-necked Duck     1
Hooded Merganser     4
Pied-billed Grebe     1
Great Blue Heron     4
Turkey Vulture     4
Bald Eagle     1
Sharp-shinned Hawk     1
Red-shouldered Hawk     1
Red-tailed Hawk (Eastern)     1
Killdeer     3
Greater Yellowlegs     1
Wilson's Snipe     15
Belted Kingfisher     1
Red-bellied Woodpecker     2
Northern Flicker (Yellow-shafted)     2
Blue Jay     2
American Crow     2
Fish Crow     7
Tree Swallow     5
Tufted Titmouse     2
Yellow-rumped Warbler (Myrtle)     10
Song Sparrow     2
White-throated Sparrow     2
Dark-eyed Junco (Slate-colored)     5
Red-winged Blackbird     25
Rusty Blackbird     5

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Marcy Stutzman
Russett, MD