Thursday, November 19 – Meeting

John Bjerke and Cyndie Loeper will present "Shorebird identification Basics.”
7:30 PM, Caroline County Public Library, 100 Market St., Denton.

You will learn about our most commonly seen Shorebirds, including demystifying breeding/mid-summer identification of yellowlegs, dowitchers, and peeps.

Camp Todd Girl Scout Camp working on a bird list

MOS members - we need your help!

Bob Foote is Camp Ranger of this enchanting Girl Scout Camp in Caroline County. He is working with some volunteers to update his trail guides. He wants to include birds likely to be seen on certain trails along with trees and other plants and wildlife.

We've got some good tree/plant folks helping out including Dave Reinecke and Sylvan Kaufman. We can create a cursory list of basic birds that can be seen in various areas of the camp. For a detailed seasonal list, it would help to get folks in there to bird and send in their lists with dates and location.

Bob invites MOS members to visit the camp to hike and bird. He just asks that you contact him ahead of time either by phone 281-844-6854 or email BobFoote1@aol.com.

Click HERE to get a copy of Camp Todd's map and a checklist you might wish to use.

Please send Debby Bennett a copy of your bird lists @ firefly5845@hotmail.com. With as many lists as we can get throughout the year, we will be able to create a nice bird list for Camp Todd.

Location of the camp: 25012 Beauchamp Branch Road, Denton, MD 21629

2009 May Bird Count for Caroline County

Canada Goose	121
Wood Duck	39
American Black Duck	4
Mallard	88
Wild Turkey	51
Northern Bobwhite	10
Double-crested Cormorant	50
Great Blue Heron	44
Great Egret	2
Snowy Egret	3
Cattle Egret	10
Green Heron	8
Glossy Ibis	2
Black Vulture	34
Turkey Vulture	175
Osprey	36
Bald Eagle	14
Sharp-shinned Hawk	2
Cooper’s Hawk	2
Red-tailed Hawk	13
American Kestrel	3
Virginia Rail	1
Black-bellied Plover	26
Semipalmated Plover	2
Killdeer	81
Spotted Sandpiper	18
Solitary Sandpiper	8
Greater Yellowlegs	21
Lesser Yellowlegs	16
Least Sandpiper	22
Wilson’s Snipe	5
American Woodcock	2
Laughing Gull	678
Bonaparte’s Gull	2
Ring-billed Gull	26
Herring Gull	12
Least Tern	3
Common Tern	4
Forster’s Tern	4
Rock Pigeon	105
Mourning Dove	134
Yellow-billed Cuckoo	4
Black-billed Cuckoo	1
Eastern Screech Owl	3
Great Horned Owl	4
Barred Owl	7
Common Nighthawk	2
Chuck-will's-widow	1
Whip-poor-will	3
Chimney Swift	446
Ruby-throated Hummingbird	17
Belted Kingfisher	5
Red-bellied Woodpecker	36
Downy Woodpecker	19
Hairy Woodpecker	4
Northern Flicker	12
Pileated Woodpecker	18
Eastern Wood-Pewee	48
Acadian Flycatcher	9
Least Flycatcher	1
Eastern Phoebe	16
Great-crested Flycatcher	88
Eastern Kingbird	29
White-eyed Vireo	23
Warbling Vireo	1
Red-eyed Vireo	40
Blue Jay	73
American Crow	173
Fish Crow	18
Horned Lark	212
Purple Martin	149
Tree Swallow	68
N. Rough-winged Swallow	19
Barn Swallow	165
Carolina Chickadee	47
Tufted Titmouse	68
White-breasted Nuthatch	7
Carolina Wren	75
House Wren	17
Marsh Wren	2
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher	7
Eastern Bluebird	102
Hermit Thrush	5
Wood Thrush	23
American Robin	383
Gray Catbird	38
Northern Mockingbird	93
Brown Thrasher	31
European Starling	718
Cedar Waxwing	53
Northern Parula	4
Yellow Warbler	5
Chestnut-sided Warbler	1
Black-throated Blue Warbler	5
Yellow-rumped Warbler	9
Pine Warbler	13
Prairie Warbler	5
Palm Warbler	1
Blackpoll Warbler	1
Black-and-white Warbler	8
American Redstart	4
Prothonotary Warbler	10
Worm-eating Warbler	4
Ovenbird	46
Louisiana Waterthrush	2
Kentucky Warbler	3
Common Yellowthroat	39
Yellow-breasted Chat	15
Summer Tanager	14
Scarlet Tanager	3
Eastern Towhee	23
Chipping Sparrow	126
Field Sparrow	36
Vesper Sparrow	6
Savannah Sparrow	2
Grasshopper Sparrow	11
Song Sparrow	19
White-throated Sparrow	6
Northern Cardinal	150
Blue Grosbeak	38
Indigo Bunting	112
Bobolink	33
Red-winged Blackbird	582
Eastern Meadowlark	2
Common Grackle	460
Brown-headed Cowbird	136
Orchard Oriole	38
Baltimore Oriole	34
House Finch	41
American Goldfinch	101
House Sparrow	199
Total Individuals	132
Species Total	7612

Fun Bird Quizzes

Check them out and test your knowledge on birds!

Bird Brains Quizzes -- http://www.collieraudubon.info/bird_trivia.html

State birds Trivia game - http://thinks.com/trivia/state_birds.htm

Free Bird Trivia Facts - http://www.triviaplaying.com/04_bird.htm

World Book Bird Quiz - http://www.worldbookonline.com/wb/Quiz?Birds

Yellow Hummingbirds?

For three consecutive years now I have seen a prothonotary warbler drinking from my hummingbird feeder. This year I was able to get a couple of photos. I have taken to the removal of one of the four bee guards in order that he may drink. Has anyone else heard of, or witnessed this behavior before?

Mike Framptom-Price

April 19 results of Bird Banding at Chester River Field Research Center at Chino Farms

Good to see you and the other Caroline bird club members the other day. Below is a list of the birds we caught the other day with totals for each species. We banded a total of 76 new birds of 23 species, these numbers are for the entire day not just the time you where there.

Ruby-crowned Kinglet- 6
Winter Wren- 1
Am. Goldfinch- 11
Field Sparrow- 5
Yellow-palm Warbler- 2*
Chipping Sparrow- 5
Common-yellow Throat- 1*
Myrtle Warbler- 1
Savannah Sparrow- 1
Blue-headed Vireo- 1*
White-throat- 10
Hermit Thrush- 5
Vesper Sparrow- 1*
Sosp Sparrow- 1
Red-winged Blackbird- 5
E. Kingbird- 1*
Brown Thrasher- 4
Mockingbird-1
Am Robin- 3
Blue Jay- 4
Flicker- 2
Common Grackle- 1
C. Chickadee- 1

* are new for the year.

We got our first Hummers today (2 males), Gray Catbird, and Wood thrushes. We have been hearing Wood Thrushes for a few days but caught the first of the year today. Other new birds heard but not caught were Black-throated Green Warbler and Yellow Warbler.

Good birding
Dan

Swan photo by Fil Morrison

On the Choptank River late winter - early Spring