This morning in the Liberty Watershed off Bollinger Mill Road despite
the windy conditions I managed eight species of warblers:
Canada Goose - two broods of young including one brood looking
freshly-hatched and dropping off a four-foot rock into the lake.
DC Cormorant 1
Great Blue Heron 1
Red-shouldered Hawk 1 adult flying off with what appeared to be a frog
dangling from its talons
Crested Flycatcher 1, heard only
Yellow-throated Vireo 2
Red-eyed Vireo 3, heard only
Rough-winged Swallow 1
Gnatcatcher 7
Ruby-crowned Kinglet 3
Ovenbird 4, heard only
Louisiana Waterthrush 1, heard only, chipping
BLUE-WINGED WARBLER 1, heard only, singing
Black & White Warbler 5
Hooded Warbler 1 male
Parula 4
Pine Warbler 2, heard only
BLACK-THROATED GREEN WARBLER 1 singing male
White-throated Sparrow 20
This afternoon at Piney Run Park:
Canada Goose 12
Mallard 1
Hooded Merganser 2, a pair
Ruddy Duck 1 female
Common Loon 2 adults
Horned Grebe 1, molting
Great Blue Heron 2
BALD EAGLE 3, one adult soaring, two full-grown young in nest, the larger
standing on the edge flexing its wings
CASPIAN TERN 2 adults in breeding plumage at White Rock Road
Kingbird 1, heard only
Rough-winged Swallow 2
Tree Swallow 50
BANK SWALLOW 1
Barn Swallow 25
Cliff Swallow 10
Yellow Warbler 2, heard only
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Bob Ringler
Eldersburg MD
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