Today, 12/16/11, Jeff Culler and I birded in St. Mary's County. The
highlights were:

Cornfield Harbor Rd
Sedge Wren found by Mikey and follow-up directions by Tyler.

Point Lookout SP
Sora
Gray Catbird

Beauvue Ponds
Northern Shoveler
Northern Harrier

Complete checklists are below.

  Cornfield Harbor, St. Mary's, US-MD
Dec 16, 2011 7:55 AM - 8:25 AM
Protocol: Traveling
0.5 mile(s)
25 species

Great Blue Heron  1
Black Vulture  14
Turkey Vulture  8
Bald Eagle  3
Cooper's Hawk  1
Red-shouldered Hawk  1
Red-tailed Hawk  1
Herring Gull (American)  1
Red-bellied Woodpecker  2
Hairy Woodpecker  1
Northern Flicker (Yellow-shafted)  3
Blue Jay  2
Sedge Wren  1     Continuing. Heard it calling. Directions from Tyler Bell
- When you turn onto Cornfield Harbor Road from Rt. 5 you'll drive through
a forested area before it opens to fields on both sides of the road. There
is a gravel trail on the left that goes down to the Jacob's Farm section of
Pt. Lookout State Park and the hunter parking lot. Just beyond the trail,
Cornfield Harbor Road twists a bit and there is a stand of phrags in a
marshy area mostly on the left side of the road.
Ruby-crowned Kinglet  1
Eastern Bluebird  2
American Robin  1
Northern Mockingbird  1
Yellow-rumped Warbler (Myrtle)  6
Eastern Towhee  1
Field Sparrow  1
Song Sparrow  6
White-throated Sparrow  8
Dark-eyed Junco (Slate-colored)  2
Northern Cardinal  2
Red-winged Blackbird  48

Point Lookout State Park, St. Mary's, US-MD
Dec 16, 2011 8:30 AM - 10:30 AM
Protocol: Traveling
3.0 mile(s)
26 species

Surf Scoter  4
Black Scoter  5
Long-tailed Duck  40
Bufflehead  80
Common Goldeneye  8
Red-breasted Merganser  1
Horned Grebe  3
Brown Pelican  3
Turkey Vulture  6
Bald Eagle  8     Exact count. 4 adults, 4 imm. 2 adults seen later, at the
north point could have been 2 of the 4 adults.
Sora  1     Continuing. Calling from the SW corner of the last phrag pond
at the point.
Sanderling  1
Bonaparte's Gull  48
Ring-billed Gull  2
Herring Gull (American)  6
Great Black-backed Gull  3
Carolina Chickadee  5
Tufted Titmouse  1
Brown-headed Nuthatch  5
Carolina Wren  4
Gray Catbird  1     Picnic area
European Starling  7
Cedar Waxwing  50
Song Sparrow  1
White-throated Sparrow  4
Northern Cardinal  6

Beauvue Ponds, St. Mary's, US-MD
Dec 16, 2011 11:55 AM - 12:25 PM
Protocol: Traveling
0.5 mile(s)
20 species

Canada Goose  20
Mute Swan  5
Tundra Swan  7
Gadwall  38     Exact count.
Mallard  10
Northern Shoveler  4
Redhead  2
Ring-necked Duck  110
Lesser Scaup  1
Ruddy Duck  10
Common Loon  4
Pied-billed Grebe  6     Exact count.
Great Blue Heron  1
Black Vulture  2
Turkey Vulture  6
Northern Harrier  3
Red-tailed Hawk (Eastern)  1
Ring-billed Gull  4
Great Black-backed Gull  2
Eastern Bluebird  5

This report was generated automatically by eBird v3 (http://ebird.org)



-- 
Joe Hanfman
Columbia, MD

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