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Harford: Lakeside (Little Blue Heron, Least Terns AND Purple Finch?)

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Rick Cheicante

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Rick Cheicante

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Sun, 16 May 2010 23:31:16 -0400

Lakeside (Sunday, May 16, 5 -7 p.m.)


Marshy wetland area:

LITTLE BLUE HERON -- 1 (white, first spring)
Great Egret (present Friday, but not today)
Least Tern -- 2
Greater Yellowlegs -- 3
Lesser Yellowlegs -- 1
Solitary Sandpiper -- 1
Spotted Sandpiper -- 2
Least Sandpipers -- 6
Killdeer -- 2

Around the woods (highlights):

WILSON'S WARBLER -- 1
NASHVILLE WARBLER -- 1
PURPLE FINCH -- 2 (lovely males, 1 or both singing, foraging in the tree tops)
Yellow-billed Cuckoo -- 1 (heard)
Eastern Kingbird -- 2
both orioles

Around the House today (highlights):

Blackpoll Warblers, Magnolia Warbler, Black-throated Blue Warbler (f), Baltimore Oriole and two Rose-breasted Grosbeaks (m + f)

--
Rick Cheicante
Harford County
Bel Air, MD