First off, thanks a lot to everyone who responded to my questions about AA Co. canoeing and birding. My friend and I got super ambitious and, with the tide with us both ways we decided to amkea full day of it. We put in on the Patuxent River at the Rte 4 bridge and paddled south all the way through Jug Bay, past Selby's landing, up Mataponi Creek and landed at Merkle WMA. It took about 3 hours. We saw at least 20 pairs of Osprey along here, several Bald Eagles, Purple Martins and lots of Tree, Barn, and N. Rough-winged Swallows, a 6-8 pairs of Wood Ducks, a pair of Blue-winged Teal, several Greater Yellowlegs, a Solitary Sandpiper, a couple Spotted Sandpipers, a couple of Coots, Forster's Terns, and several Marsh Wrens calling from both sides of the river. We saw an otter. At Merkle we walked around the woods and over to the observation tower where we had American Redstart, Yellow-throated Warbler, Yellow, and Hooded Warbler.
On the way back, the wind picked up and it was a bit of a struggle paddling across Jug Bay so we stopped at the Wetland Sanc. to rest and hiked the Rail Road trail over to the visitors center and back we added Orchard Oriole (singing male), Scarlet Tanager (molting first yr male), and Eastern Kingbirds (pair). The rest of the paddle back to Rte 4 was very nice as well and we saw 2 Beavers. Just an awesome day to be on the water. 65 species of birds including 10 warbler spp.
Good Birding,
Frank Marenghi
Annapolis, MD
Double-crested
Cormorant
Great
Blue Heron
Snowy
Egret
Black
Vulture
Turkey
Vulture
Canada
Goose
Wood
Duck
Mallard
Blue-winged
Teal
Bald
Eagle
Northern
Harrier
Red-shouldered
Hawk
Osprey
American
Coot
Greater
Yellowlegs
Solitary
Sandpiper
Spotted
Sandpiper
Ring-billed
Gull
Laughing
Gull
Forster's
Tern
Rock
Pigeon
Mourning
Dove
Chimney
Swift
Belted
Kingfisher
Red-bellied
Woodpecker
Downy
Woodpecker
Eastern
Phoebe
Eastern
Kingbird
Red-eyed
Vireo
White-eyed
Vireo
Blue
Jay
Fish
Crow
Purple
Martin
Tree
Swallow
Northern
Rough-winged Swallow
Barn
Swallow
Carolina
Chickadee
Tufted
Titmouse
Blue-gray
Gnatcatcher
Carolina
Wren
Marsh
Wren
American
Robin
Gray
Catbird
Northern
Mockingbird
Hooded
Warbler
Common
Yellowthroat
Ovenbird
American
Redstart
Pine
Warbler
Yellow-throated
Warbler
Northern
Parula
Yellow
Warbler
Louisiana
Waterthrush
Yellow-rumped
Warbler
Scarlet
Tanager
Northern
Cardinal
Eastern
Towhee
Chipping
Sparrow
Field
Sparrow
White-throated
Sparrow
Red-winged
Blackbird
Common
Grackle
House
Finch
American
Goldfinch
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