I birded for an hour or so in the afternoon both days this weekend at Sandy Point State Park.  

Highlights include:
Wood Duck  9
Gadwall  4 (yesterday, only 3 today)
Northern Pintail  1 F
Lesser Scaup  1 M
Common Goldeneye  12 (including the injured drake at the marina)
RED-THROATED LOON  1 (today only)
Horned Grebe  1 (today only)
GREAT CORMORANT  19 (Likely more. All on or around Baltimore Light. An awesome count!)
American Coot  1
Bonaparte's Gull  57
Brown Creeper 1
Ruby-crowned Kinglet  2 (yesterday)
Winter Wren  2 (yesterday)
Hermit Thrush 3
Brown Thrasher 1 (yesterday)
PINE WARBLER  9 (yesterday, 2 today)
Yellow-rumped Warbler  5
Song Sparrow  (everywhere, in large numbers)
RUSTY BLACKBIRD (4 yesterday)

Back at home in our yard, a Hermit Thrush kept company with at least one Fox Sparrow today. Yesterday three Fox Sparrows were out feeding on the ground together. The Great-horned Owl  and Red-shouldered Hawks have been vocal lately, as has the Osprey who arrived earlier this week.

Good birding,

Dan Haas
St. Margaret's, MD
Nervousbirdsatgmail.com
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