Substituting for Mike Welch, who usually leads Sector 8W for the Sugarloaf Mountain CBC, Fred Hoffman, Pablo Garcia-Ojeda, and I had an interesting time counting in Black Hill Regional Park, Montgomery Co.  We tallied 48 species and 768 individual birds.  Highlights for us were Bald Eagle, Gray Catbird, Tundra Swan, and Hooded and Common Mergansers.  

Not having done this Sector before, I don’t know how our results compare with years past, but I suspect numbers of birds are likely down.  It was a cold day with the front that had just come through and the wind that increased through the day keeping the land birds in hiding.  Looking at the habitat we birded, it is amazing to me to tally only 5 Carolina Wren, 7 White-breasted Nuthatch, no Ruby-crowned Kinglet, 4 Northern Mockingbird, 6 Yellow-rumped Warbler, 1 Red-bellied Woodpecker, 4 Blue Jay, and 35 White-throated Sparrow and 12 Dark-eyed Junco, to name a few.

Complete consolidated list is below.

Jim Nelson
Bethesda

Canada Goose                                   252

Tundra Swan                                      10

American Black Duck                      14

Mallard                                                 26
Ring-necked Duck                            49
Bufflehead                                         31
Common Goldeneye                      6

Hooded Merganser                        12
Common Merganser                      5
Ruddy Duck                                        14

Pied-billed Grebe                            1
Great Blue Heron                             4

Black Vulture                                     5

Turkey Vulture                                  1
Bald Eagle                                            2
Red-shouldered Hawk                   1

American Coot                                  45
Ring-billed Gull                                  1

gull sp.                                                  1
Rock Pigeon                                       16

Mourning Dove                                                1

Red-bellied Woodpecker             1

Downy Woodpecker                      5

Hairy Woodpecker                          1
Northern Flicker                               4

Blue Jay                                                4
American Crow                                                 10
Fish Crow                                            9
crow sp.                                               100

Carolina Chickadee                          19

Tufted Titmouse                              13
White-breasted Nuthatch            7

Brown Creeper                                 4
Carolina Wren                                   5
Golden-crowned Kinglet              11
Eastern Bluebird                               10

American Robin                                                5

Gray Catbird                                       1
Northern Mockingbird                   4
European Starling                            18
Cedar Waxwing                                47
Yellow-rumped Warbler               6
Eastern Towhee                                               1
Song Sparrow                                    3
White-throated Sparrow              35

Dark-eyed Junco                              12
Northern Cardinal                            20

House Finch                                       5
American Goldfinch                        7

House Sparrow                                 5

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