Middle of the night report. Took off work today (or was that yesterday ) to enjoy some nice weather and was not disappointed . Beautiful day out . Intended to go straight to Pickering Creek but couldnt resist pitstops along the way . Quick check of CBEC (Horsehead) Pine Warblers , huge raft of Ruddy duck (my estimate 1000), 33 American Wigeon . and few others . Lists below .
Oh yeah ... was not able to find Virginia Warbler . Headed straight to the path next to the entrance road. Went a little past the observation deck and then come back to observ. deck . Noticed the big patch of bare ground and believed i was in the correct area as there was noone else around to verify .. After about an hour i headed back to the car to wait and see if i run into another birder and they could help me be sure i was in the correct spot or should i have been somewhere else. The reports on the board in the Visitor cabin were a little confusuing . Hadnt waited long when birder named Roger came along and was heading to same spot so i was now sure i had been in right spot. Roger disappeared and i looked around for another half hour without success. Only chippy , pippy , spippy , gippy peeps chips were from Tree Swallows hovering about all the nest boxes. A couple peeps from sparrows. ugghhh ! Another rarity missed !
Still great day out with lots of birds.
Date: Thursday, March 15, 2012, 2:56 AM
Pickering Creek Audubon Center, Talbot, US-MD
Mar 14, 2012 2:30 PM - 5:30 PM
Protocol: Traveling
3.0 mile(s)
34 species
Canada Goose 2
American Wigeon 8
American Black Duck 1
Mallard 40
Northern Shoveler 100
Northern Pintail 1
Canvasback 1
Hooded Merganser 1
Great Blue Heron 1
Black Vulture 5
Turkey Vulture 30
Bald Eagle 1
American Coot 15
Killdeer 2
Red-bellied Woodpecker 1
Pileated Woodpecker 1
American Crow 5
Tree Swallow 15
Tufted Titmouse 1
Carolina Wren 1
Eastern Bluebird 6
American Robin 8
Brown Thrasher 2 in brush on side of entrance road.
Eastern Towhee 1
Field Sparrow 1
Savannah Sparrow 1
Song Sparrow 5
Swamp Sparrow 1
White-throated Sparrow 1
Dark-eyed Junco 1 by hisself pecking at the gravel on the parking area
Northern Cardinal 2
Red-winged Blackbird 20
Common Grackle 8
Brown-headed Cowbird 5
White tailed deer 12 at farm next door
Redbellied slider turtle 1 helped across the road.
This report was generated automatically by eBird v3 (http://ebird.org)
Chesapeake Bay Environmental Center (Horsehead), Queen Anne's, US-MD
Mar 14, 2012 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
Protocol: Traveling
2.0 mile(s)
18 species
Canada Goose 20
American Wigeon 32
Mallard 9
Canvasback 20
Ring-necked Duck 8
Ruddy Duck 1000
Black Vulture 2
Turkey Vulture 2
Osprey 3 1 crossing entrance road 2 on platform opposite side of Marshy creek .
Ring-billed Gull 2
American Crow 8
Tree Swallow 15 hanging on the many nest boxes along the entrance road
American Robin 12
Pine Warbler 2
Eastern Towhee 1
Northern Cardinal 1
Red-winged Blackbird 20
Common Grackle 20
Spotted turtle 1 crossing the entrance road
Saundra Byrd
baltimore
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