Evening all,

Late last night, as I returned home from my gig around 1:30AM, two
Great-horned Owls were hooting it up in the trees of my front yard.
Rather smartly, the Screech owl stayed quiet.

This morning (Sunday) I arrived at the Crownsville Containment Ponds
to lead a walk through the Bacon Ridge Branch natural area.  It was,
as I'm sure all of you experienced, a wonderful day (perhaps a tad on
the breezy side).

Here is the list from our hike from 6:45AM-Noon.

Location:     Bacon Ridge Branch / Crownsville
Observation date:     4/17/11
Number of species:     73

Canada Goose     45
Wood Duck     1
Mallard     8
Ring-necked Duck     9
Bufflehead     1
Common Loon     1 (flyover)
Double-crested Cormorant     35
Great Blue Heron     1
Black Vulture     3
Turkey Vulture     9
Osprey     1
Bald Eagle     2
Northern Harrier     1
Cooper's Hawk     1
Red-shouldered Hawk     2
Broad-winged Hawk     1
Red-tailed Hawk (Eastern)     4
Merlin     1 (mysteriously, nearly every swallow vanished when this
falcon flew over)
American Coot     3
Killdeer     10
Wilson's Snipe     1
Ring-billed Gull     5
Herring Gull     4
Rock Pigeon     12
Mourning Dove     5
Chimney Swift     4
Red-bellied Woodpecker     3
Downy Woodpecker     4
Northern Flicker     1
Northern Flicker (Yellow-shafted)     2
Blue-headed Vireo     1
Blue Jay     12
American Crow     4
Fish Crow     8
Northern Rough-winged Swallow     5
Tree Swallow     12
Bank Swallow     5
Barn Swallow     9
Carolina Chickadee     8
Tufted Titmouse     8
Carolina Wren     2
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher     14
Ruby-crowned Kinglet     2
Eastern Bluebird     7
American Robin     4
Northern Mockingbird     6
Brown Thrasher     1
European Starling     14
Northern Parula     3
Yellow-rumped Warbler (Myrtle)     7
Pine Warbler     1
Palm Warbler (Western)     1
Palm Warbler (Yellow)     5
Black-and-white Warbler     3
Louisiana Waterthrush     1
Common Yellowthroat     1
HOODED WARBLER     1
Eastern Towhee     4
Chipping Sparrow     7
Field Sparrow     1
VESPER SPARROW     2 (one bird found on the raised path between the
back impoundments, the other bird was seen minutes later as I left the
park near the old falling down barn)
Savannah Sparrow (Eastern)     8
Song Sparrow     1
Swamp Sparrow     4
White-throated Sparrow     15
Dark-eyed Junco (Slate-colored)     12
Northern Cardinal     16
Red-winged Blackbird     5
RUSTY BLACKBIRD     2
Common Grackle (Purple)     4
Brown-headed Cowbird     10
House Finch     2
American Goldfinch     5

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

Later this evening I will try to post some photos from today's walk.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/nervousbird/

Good Birding,

Dan Haas
St. Margaret's, MD
nervousbirdsatgmail.com

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