Monday, 3/19 Jeff Culler and I visited Point Lookout State Park. The
highlights were 32 Common Loons, 78 Horned Grebes, 10 Brown Pelicans, 1
Virginia Rail, 1 Sora, 14 Sanderlings, 2 Dunlin, 1 Barn Swallow, 2 Marsh
Wrens, and 1 Rusty Blackbird.

Our complete list is below.

  Joe Hanfman

Columbia, MD


Point Lookout State Park, St. Mary's, US-MD
Mar 19, 2012 7:55 AM - 10:55 AM
Protocol: Traveling
5.0 mile(s)
61 species

Canada Goose  2
Mute Swan  1
American Black Duck  2
Surf Scoter  90
Long-tailed Duck  26
Bufflehead  150
Red-breasted Merganser  23
Red-throated Loon  1
Common Loon  32     Exact count
Pied-billed Grebe  1
Horned Grebe  78     Close to an exact count
Northern Gannet  6
Double-crested Cormorant  1
Brown Pelican  10
Great Blue Heron  2
Great Egret  1
Turkey Vulture  23
Osprey  2
Virginia Rail  1
Sora  1     Called from the east side of the pond at the point.
American Coot  6
Killdeer  1
Sanderling  14     Exact count
Dunlin  2     Seen next to Sanderlings. Slightly larger, long bill slightly
down curved, brown back.
Laughing Gull  9
Ring-billed Gull  10
Herring Gull (American)  70
Great Black-backed Gull  15
Mourning Dove  2
Red-bellied Woodpecker  2
Downy Woodpecker  4
Hairy Woodpecker  1
Northern Flicker (Yellow-shafted)  4
Eastern Phoebe  2
Blue Jay  2
Fish Crow  40
Barn Swallow  1     Deep forked tail, blue above, white below with an
orange throat.
Carolina Chickadee  4
Tufted Titmouse  1
Brown-headed Nuthatch  2
Carolina Wren  12
Marsh Wren  2     Calling repeatedly from the phrags around the pond at the
point.
Eastern Bluebird  6
American Robin  18
Northern Mockingbird  6
Brown Thrasher  4
European Starling  12
Pine Warbler  2
Yellow-rumped Warbler (Myrtle)  18
Eastern Towhee  3
Chipping Sparrow  2
Song Sparrow  36
Swamp Sparrow  3
White-throated Sparrow  1
Northern Cardinal  28
Red-winged Blackbird  48
Rusty Blackbird  1
Common Grackle  24
Brown-headed Cowbird  6
House Finch  2
American Goldfinch  2

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



-- 
Joe Hanfman
Columbia, MD

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