Hi All , Had some interesting stuff the last 2 days around Southwest Baltimore . First the most interesting the Bearfooted Pigeon
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WHAT THE !!!!
Someone please tell me what this is . Sorry photos arent that clear . Taken thru windshield . Bad enough i was backing up a city street to get photo of Pigeon with slippers. At first look i thought he had accumalated gunk of some sort from walking on dirty streets. !!WHAT IS IT!
Did some birding around the house yesterday and today . Got my first different ducky "GREBE" at the pond . A Pied Billed Grebe hung out here yesterday and today . Ive only been here little more than a year and have only had Mallards at the pond. Thought id get something good last winter but the pond stayed frozen most of the time . Or the SNOW was too deep to walk to it !
Mom and I did a drivethru at Southwest area park this evening . Hundreds of Robins and Blackbirds, 1 Great Egret , Mallard , GB Heron, Bald Eagle , Coopers and Redshouldered hawk . One car in Ditch .
Location: Arundel Village Park
Observation date: 11/3/10
Number of species: 29
Canada Goose 40
Mallard 8
Pied-billed Grebe 1
Black Vulture 2
Turkey Vulture 3
Bald Eagle 2 Only second time seeing Eagle around here . they did circles around Patapsco ave. area for about 5 minutes then headed back to Patapsco river.
Cooper's Hawk 1
Red-shouldered Hawk 1
Ring-billed Gull 5
Rock Pigeon 20
Mourning Dove 6
Red-bellied Woodpecker 1
Downy Woodpecker 1
Northern Flicker 1
Blue Jay 2
American Crow 6
Carolina Chickadee 2
White-breasted Nuthatch 1
Carolina Wren 1
House Wren 1 heard only . until i can correctly I.D the Wrens song will call it House .
Ruby-crowned Kinglet 2
American Robin 1
Northern Mockingbird 2
Eastern Towhee 1 have never found the Towhee at park here . first time hearing it . it did come to feeder couple times last winter.
Song Sparrow 2
White-throated Sparrow 2 heard only . likely many more . figured birds werent coming out after I saw cats and hawks lurking .
Northern Cardinal 10 flushed from scrubby area of pond
American Goldfinch 8 scrubby area of pond
House Sparrow 25 feeders
This report was generated automatically by eBird v2(http://ebird.org)
Location: Southwest Area Park
Observation date: 11/3/10
Number of species: 11
Mallard 8
Great Blue Heron 2
Great Egret 1
Bald Eagle 1
Cooper's Hawk 1 darting in and out of swarms of birds coming to roost
Red-shouldered Hawk 1
Ring-billed Gull 20
American Robin 300
European Starling 500
Red-winged Blackbird 100
Common Grackle 200
Brown-headed Cowbird 100
blackbird sp. 500
This report was generated automatically by eBird v2(http://ebird.org)
Saundra Byrd
baltimore
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