Stephanie Lovell and I make a circle of Queen Anne's, Talbot, Wicomico and Somerset Counties yesterday (4/5) visiting Chesapeake Environmental Center (Horsehead), Pickering Creek Audubon, Adkins Mill Park and Deal Island WMA.  Some highlights below:

Chesapeake Environmental Center(Horsehead), Queen Anne's Co
13 Green-winged Teal
1 Canvasback
5 Lesser Scaup
2000+ Ruddy Duck
1 Greater Yellowlegs
Someone from Horsehead told us that a pair of Horned Owls had appropriated an old Bald Eagle nest and now had two owlets.  We found the nest for quite a while, but did not see any owls.  Our disappointment was eased by watching a pair of Brown-headed Nuthatch busy working a hole in a dead limb.
1 Pileated Woodpecker
2 Brown-headed Nuthatch
1 Brown Creeper
1 Yellow-throated Warbler (County bird for me)
2 Pine Warbler
1 Chipping Sparrow

Pickering Creek Audubon Center, Talbot Co
1 Pileated Woodpecker

Adkins Mill Park, Wicomico Co
1 Bald Eagle
1 Red-tailed Hawk
1 Yellow-throated Warbler
1 Louisiana Waterthrush
No sighting of the Blue-winged Teal that Jim Green reported.

Deal WMA, Somerset Co
Riley Roberts Road
40+ Green-winged Teal
8 Northern Shoveler
2 Snowy Egret
1 Northern Harrier
2 Greater Yellowlegs
1 Barn Swallow (On wire on Rte 363 at Dames Quarter Creek)
3 Eastern Meadowlark
Game Reserve Road
3 Gadwall
4 American Black Duck
3 Northern Shoveler
2 BLACK-NECKED STILT (A County bird for me)
11 Greater Yellowlegs
1 Lesser Yellowlegs
1 Dunlin
2 Eastern Meadowlark

Princess Anne, Somerset Co
2 Laughing Gull
1 Wild Turkey (From Rte 13 a little north of Princess Anne)
A lovely day - what great weather!
Helen




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