Arrived at Swan Creek around 7:20am, just as the rain stopped and the bird(song) started. 15 minutes of carefully scanning the cells produced none of the American Avocets reported earlier. Down in the mitigated wetland, I heard and then briefly saw the Sedge Wren. A Sora gave a brief, one-time call and a Virginia Rail followed suit.

Lots of warblers in the trees on the path to the wetland. I paused long enough to hear Parula and see a Yellow Warbler, and then off to work. Lovely, but I hare birding on the clock!

Good Birding
Warren and Lisa Strobel
Annapolis, MD
www.birdcouple.com



Swan Creek Wetland--Cox Creek DMCF, Anne Arundel, US-MD
May 1, 2012 7:20 AM - 8:15 AM
Protocol: Traveling
0.75 mile(s)
30 species (+2 other taxa)

Canada Goose  6
Ruddy Duck  2
Great Blue Heron  1
Great Egret  1
Snowy Egret  2
Little Blue Heron  1
Osprey  1
Virginia Rail  1
Sora  1     gave one Ker-wee call in the mitigated wetland
Killdeer  2
Spotted Sandpiper  1
Greater/Lesser Yellowlegs  4
Least Sandpiper  13
Great Black-backed Gull  4
gull sp.  20
Caspian Tern  8
Belted Kingfisher  1
Northern Flicker  1
Red-eyed Vireo  1
Blue Jay  1
Tree Swallow  25
Carolina Wren  2
Sedge Wren  1     Glimpsed briefly in reeds in mitigated wetland. Chattering, staccato call distinct from nearby Marsh Wren
Marsh Wren  1
Common Yellowthroat  3
Northern Parula  1
Yellow Warbler  1
White-throated Sparrow  5
Northern Cardinal  2
Red-winged Blackbird  10
Orchard Oriole  2
American Goldfinch  2

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

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