Hi All,
Given the cool, damp, somewhat breezy morning on Saturday we had a low
key but fairly successful bird walk for our inaugural bird walk at the
Brampton Inn. After a quiet slow start we got things warmed up with
flocks of robins in the fruiting trees, vines, and shrubs. After we got
into the fallow fields in the property adjacent to the inn we
encountered several Palm Warblers (all Westerns). We also flushed 5
Bobolinks from a wet grassy fallow field. Geese, swifts, jays,
blackbirds, and woodpeckers were streaming in modest numbers north along
the local branch of Langford Creek. One of the woodpeckers resolved into
a surprise immature RED-HEADED, always a pleasure to see. We had a few
raptors aloft during the walk including distant Sharp-shinned and
Cooper's hawks and four well-seen Bald Eagles (2 young birds of
different ages, and 2 adults). On our way back there was a very vocal
young White-eyed Vireo trying to settle on which version of adult song
he will sing next spring. We encountered 36 species for the walk. We
have appended our e-bird checklist below to provide further detail.
Good birding,
Walter Ellison & Nancy Martin
Chestertown, MD
Observing Nature is like unwrapping a big pile of presents every time
you take a walk.
List begins below:
Brampton Inn, Kent, US-MD
Oct 1, 2011 8:15 AM - 11:00 AM
Protocol: Traveling
1.15 mile(s)
Comments: Other observers: Nancy Martin, Bob& M.J. Ampula, Ed Hatcher, Rita Scardino, Phil Snyder. Partly to mostly cloudy, 55 deg F., wind WNW 6-10 mph. Kent County Bird Club walk.
36 species
Canada Goose 110
Wood Duck 1
Mallard 8
Black Vulture 2
Turkey Vulture 13
Bald Eagle 4
Sharp-shinned Hawk 1
Cooper's Hawk 1
Laughing Gull 20 Soaring in a thermal over Brampton Inn.
Ring-billed Gull 2
Chimney Swift 10
Red-headed Woodpecker 1 Immature flying north over branch of Langford Creek.
Red-bellied Woodpecker 4
Downy Woodpecker 1
Northern Flicker (Yellow-shafted) 1
Eastern Phoebe 1
White-eyed Vireo 1
Blue Jay 8
American Crow 3
Tree Swallow 11
Carolina Chickadee 2
Tufted Titmouse 1
Carolina Wren 7
House Wren 1
Eastern Bluebird 11
American Robin 53
Gray Catbird 6
Northern Mockingbird 2
Cedar Waxwing 12
Palm Warbler (Western) 7
Swamp Sparrow 1
Northern Cardinal 8
Indigo Bunting 1
Bobolink 5
Red-winged Blackbird 70
House Finch 1
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