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Mourning Warbler at Morgan Run, 5/15/2011 (Carrol County)

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"Feild, Thomas C. (GSFC-5990)"

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Feild, Thomas C. (GSFC-5990)

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Mon, 16 May 2011 09:40:12 -0500

Hi, 
 
I started the day yesterday at Morgan Run, and it was a fantastic day.  The brushy fields, woodland edges, and woods all held good numbers of resident species with fair numbers of migrants as well.  I spent hours walking the trails and still only covered a fraction of the area.   
 
I found the best bird of the day when I was almost back to the car and heard a Mourning Warbler singing from a multiflora/honeysuckle tangle on the edge of the trail.  If anyone wants to see if it is still around, start from the parking lot and go left and follow the woodland edge closest to 97.  After walking 5-10 minutes you will see a brown, fairly bare area to the left that contains mostly dead stalks of Indian Hemp.  The warbler was in the large tangle just ahead of this that juts out into the trail.  I stopped back again at the end of the day but couldn't relocate the bird, but most birds had were no longer singing, and the best habitat is along the trail, so it may continue in the area. 
 
Other highlights included Tennessee, Wilson's, Kentucky, and Hooded Warbers, etc for a total of 22 species of warblers.  The e-bird list is attached below. 
 
After Morgan Run I hit Milltown Mill and Soldier's Delight, in Baltimore County.  Both spots were OK, but things had slowed down considerably and they didn't compare to Morgan Run.  Some highlights are: 
Milltown Mill:  Black-throated Blue Warblers (4), Warbling Vireo, Veery 
Soldier's Delight:  Hooded and Prairie Warblers, Cobweb Skipper 
 
 
Tom Feild 
Laurel, Maryland 
 
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Sent: Sunday, May 15, 2011 9:58 PM 
Subject: eBird Report - Morgan Run Natural Environmental Area , 5/15/11 
 
 
> 
> 
> Location:     Morgan Run Natural Environmental Area 
> Observation date:     5/15/11 
> Number of species:     55 
> 
> Sharp-shinned Hawk     1 
> Mourning Dove     1 
> Red-bellied Woodpecker     2 
> Eastern Wood-Pewee     5 
> Acadian Flycatcher     4 
> Willow Flycatcher     1 
> Great Crested Flycatcher     2 
> Eastern Kingbird     1 
> White-eyed Vireo     3 
> Red-eyed Vireo     5 
> Blue Jay     2 
> American Crow     6 
> Barn Swallow     2 
> Carolina Chickadee     6 
> Tufted Titmouse     4 
> Carolina Wren     1 
> House Wren     1 
> Blue-gray Gnatcatcher     5 
> Veery     1 
> Wood Thrush     10 
> American Robin     5 
> Gray Catbird     15 
> Brown Thrasher     8 
> Cedar Waxwing     12 
> Blue-winged Warbler     8 
> Tennessee Warbler     1 
> Northern Parula     6 
> Yellow Warbler     3 
> Chestnut-sided Warbler     3 
> Magnolia Warbler     6 
> Yellow-rumped Warbler (Myrtle)     2 
> Black-throated Green Warbler     3 
> Prairie Warbler     8 
> Blackpoll Warbler     10 
> Black-and-white Warbler     1 
> American Redstart     8 
> Ovenbird     6 
> Northern Waterthrush     1 
> Louisiana Waterthrush     1 
> Kentucky Warbler     2 
> Mourning Warbler     1     Bird was singing from a multiflora/honeysuckle  
> thicket on the trail along the wood edge if you go left from the parking  
> lot and walk 5-10 minutes. 
> Common Yellowthroat     6 
> Hooded Warbler     1 
> Wilson's Warbler     1 
> Canada Warbler     1 
> Yellow-breasted Chat     1 
> Eastern Towhee     8 
> Field Sparrow     3 
> Scarlet Tanager     6 
> Northern Cardinal     4 
> Indigo Bunting     8 
> Common Grackle     5 
> Brown-headed Cowbird     12 
> Baltimore Oriole     3 
> American Goldfinch     8 
> 
> This report was generated automatically by eBird v2(http://ebird.org)  
 
 
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