From: les coble [mailto:[log in to unmask]] 
Sent: Sunday, December 11, 2011 3:54 PM
Subject: Birdwalk rpt

Birds of the Cambridge Waterfront and Surrounds.
The Talbot Bird Club had seen few birds in the Choptank River up to Friday.
Thus, the group, led by Les Coble, stopped at Papermill Pond and the ponds
along Oxford Road before heading to Cambridge. However, they were rewarded
with many Buffleheads and Common Goldeneye, which had come in with the shift
of the northern cool winds overnight. The light was low, but bright, and
keeping the light to their backs resulted in beautiful colors in the birds,
starting with a pair of Hooded Mergansers along the Easton Bypass. The ponds
showed Shovelers had arrived inland. A total of 54 birds were tallied with
the jelly going to whoever could reach the restaurants supply in the middle
of the table at Cambridge Diner in the after-birding breakfast.


The list of sightings:


Snow Goose
Canada Goose
SWAN GOOSE (DOMESTIC TYPE)
Tundra Swan
Mallard 
Pintail
Green-winged Teal
Surf Scoter
Long-tailed Duck
Bufflehead
Common Goldeneye
Hooded Merganser
Ruddy Duck

Common Loon
DC Cormorant
Great Blue Heron
Black Vulture
Turkey Vulture
Bald Eagle
Northern Harrier
Cooper's Hawk
Red-tailed Hawk
Kestrel

Laughing Gull
Ring-billed Gull
Herring Gull
Great Black-backed Gull
Rock Pigeon
Mourning Dove
Belted Kingfisher
Red-bellied Woodpecker
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
Downy Woodpecker
Northern Flicker
Pileated Woodpecker

Blue Jay
American Crow
Carolina Chickadee
Tufted Titmouse
Carolina Wren
Ruby-crowned Kinglet
Eastern Bluebird
American Robin
Northern Mockingbird
European Starling
Cedar Waxwing
Yellow-rumped Warbler

Chipping Sparrow
Song Sparrow
Swamp Sparrow
White-throated Sparrow
Junco
Cardinal
Red-winged Blackbird
American Goldfinch

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