I spent Sunday morning birding and botanizing with my girlfriend at Patuxent River Park and Merkle Wildlife Sanctuary in P.G. Co. Avian highlights included one Gray-cheeked Thrush a short ways down the "Nature Study" trail at Pax R Park. Warbler diversity was relatively low but we did find a Wilson's Warbler and a Northern Waterthrush, along with the more numerous Redstarts, Black and Whites, and Magnolias. Large numbers of migrating Flickers, Catbirds, Phoebes, Robins, and Bluebirds were around and we had 6 different Am. Kestrels hunting over the fields at Merkle. Other notables included 2-3 Rose-breasted Grosbeaks and nice close looks a Pileated Woodpecker. Jug Bay had a flock of about 40 N/ Shovelers that came screaming around the corner from the south when a Bald Eagle appeared over head. Several Forster's Terns, Laughing Gulls, D.C. Cormorants, Tree Swallows, and Gr. Yellowlegs but nothing unusual. Full list below.
Good Birding,
Frank Marenghi
Annapolis, MD
Double-crested Cormorant
Great Blue Heron
Great Egret
Turkey Vulture
Canada Goose
Wood Duck
American Black Duck
Mallard
Northern Shoveler
Bald Eagle
Cooper's Hawk
American Kestrel
Killdeer
Greater Yellowlegs
Ring-billed Gull
Laughing Gull
Forster's Tern
Mourning Dove
Chimney Swift
Belted Kingfisher
Red-bellied Woodpecker
Downy Woodpecker
Hairy Woodpecker
Northern Flicker
Pileated Woodpecker
Eastern Wood-Pewee
Eastern Phoebe
Red-eyed Vireo
Blue Jay
American Crow
Fish Crow
Tree Swallow
Carolina Chickadee
Tufted Titmouse
White-breasted Nuthatch
Carolina Wren
Eastern Bluebird
American Robin
Gray-cheeked Thrush
Gray Catbird
Northern Mockingbird
Common Yellowthroat
American Redstart
Black-and-white Warbler
Northern Waterthrush
Wilson's Warbler
Magnolia Warbler
Northern Cardinal
Rose-Breasted Grosbeak
Indigo Bunting
Common Grackle
House Finch
American Goldfinch
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