The Howard County Bird Club had a field trip with 17 people today to MPEA.
We started at the South Wind Circle entrance, walked through the meadow,
down to the river, up the Orange Connector Trail to Stop #1 on the Red
Trail, followed the Red Trail in high to low order from Stops 17 - 11, and
back to the Blue Trail. The highlights were Olive-sided Flycatcher in the
meadow, a flyover Laughing Gull, and a brief look at the continuing
Philadelphia Vireo at Stop #17.

 Later in the day I had 3 Laughing Gulls fly over my house going in the
direction of Lake Kittamaquandi.

 This evening at MPEA while standing at Red Stop #1, I had 12 Common
Nighthawks. This is a low number compared to the 92 nighthawks that Jeff
Culler had fly over his house last night.

Complete list from this mornings field trip below:

Middle Patuxent Environmental Area, Howard, US-MD
Sep 4, 2011 7:00 AM - 11:00 AM
Protocol: Traveling
3.0 mile(s)
53 species

Canada Goose  8
Turkey Vulture  2
Red-shouldered Hawk  1
Laughing Gull  1
Ring-billed Gull  1
Mourning Dove  4
Yellow-billed Cuckoo  3
Chimney Swift  6
Ruby-throated Hummingbird  7
Red-bellied Woodpecker  4
Downy Woodpecker  4
Northern Flicker (Yellow-shafted)  3
Pileated Woodpecker  2
Olive-sided Flycatcher  1
Eastern Wood-Pewee  10
Acadian Flycatcher  3
Great Crested Flycatcher  1
White-eyed Vireo  6
Philadelphia Vireo  1
Red-eyed Vireo  4
American Crow  12
Fish Crow  6
Tree Swallow  1
Barn Swallow  4
Carolina Chickadee  8
Tufted Titmouse  6
White-breasted Nuthatch  8
Carolina Wren  6
House Wren  1
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher  5
Eastern Bluebird  3
Wood Thrush  1
American Robin  12
Gray Catbird  16
Northern Mockingbird  1
European Starling  2
Cedar Waxwing  8
Blue-winged Warbler  1
Black-and-white Warbler  2
Common Yellowthroat  1
American Redstart  4
Magnolia Warbler  5
Chestnut-sided Warbler  3
Canada Warbler  2
Eastern Towhee  2
Chipping Sparrow  6
Scarlet Tanager  2
Northern Cardinal  14
Blue Grosbeak  2
Indigo Bunting  7
Baltimore Oriole  3
House Finch  1
American Goldfinch  18

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



-- 
Joe Hanfman
Columbia, MD

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