This is a late report from Friday afternoon (3/19), when I saw a hybrid American / European (Common) Green-winged Teal at Oxbow while unsuccessfully looking for the Pectoral Sandpiper reported earlier in the week.   Jim Brighton and I didn't see the hybrid teal yesterday morning.

John Hubbell
Washington DC


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Subject: [MDOSPREY] Oxbow Lake: RUSTY BLACKBIRD, WILSON'S SNIPE

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

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

Marcy Stutzman
Russett, MD