Frances & I conducted the Breeding Bird Survey for Route 
22/Beltsville today (running through Laurel/PG County and 
Columbia/Howard County).  50 stops in 4 hrs 44 min, mostly 
overcast, zero to light winds, humid and warm.  Highlights 
included 2 nesting OSPREYS far from water (one brought in a 
fish!), 3 NORTHERN FLICKERS (Yellow-shafted) sharing one 
telephone pole, and a perched juvenile RED-SHOULDERED HAWK 
scratching off downy feathers while giving plaintive calls.

Species totals below (incl. a few species between stops):

Black Vulture 2
Osprey 2
Cooper's Hawk 1
Red-shouldered Hawk 2
Red-tailed Hawk 1
Killdeer 1
Rock Pigeon 9
Mourning Dove 30
Chimney Swift 17
Ruby-throated Hummingbird 1
Red-bellied Woodpecker 9
Downy Woodpecker 3
Northern Flicker 8
Pileated Woodpecker 1
Eastern Wood-Pewee 9
Great Crested Flycatcher 7
Eastern Kingbird 8
Red-eyed Vireo 8
Blue Jay 20
American Crow 21
Fish Crow 14
crow sp 1
Barn Swallow 3
Carolina Chickadee 7
Tufted Titmouse 9
White-breasted Nuthatch 5
Carolina Wren 19
House Wren 5
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher 6
Eastern Bluebird 2
Wood Thrush 10
American Robin 68
Gray Catbird 17
Northern Mockingbird 13
European Starling 50
Cedar Waxwing 4
Pine Warbler 3
Ovenbird 1
Common Yellowthroat 3
Eastern Towhee 8
Chipping Sparrow 11
Song Sparrow 9
Scarlet Tanager 2
Northern Cardinal 31
Blue Grosbeak 2
Indigo Bunting 6
Red-winged Blackbird 3
Common Grackle 21
Brown-headed Cowbird 2
Baltimore Oriole 2
House Finch 13
American Goldfinch 18
House Sparrow 33

52 species

D

-- 
Derek C. Richardson, Laurel, PG County, MD
http://www.astro.umd.edu/~dcr/personal.html

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