5/24/12

Important Bird Area Idlylwild Management Area great for birding

A great place to bird in Caroline County!  Fields, scrub, pines, hardwoods, wooded ponds.  Spray yourself well for ticks.  No bathroom facilities there.

For more information about Idylwild, go to:
http://iba.audubon.org/iba/viewSiteProfile.do?siteId=3285&navSite=state

For directions to and maps of Idylwild Wildlife Management Area go to: http://dnr.maryland.gov/wildlife/Publiclands/eastern/idylwild.asp

Birds seen and/or heard there today:

1.       Chipping sparrow
2.       Field sparrow
3.       Blue-gray gnatcatcher
4.       Eastern Wood-Peewee
5.       Acadian flycatcher
6.       Great crested flycatcher
7.       Brown thrasher
8.       White-eyed vireo
9.       Red-eyed vireo
10.   Worm eating warbler
11.   Pine warbler
12.   Prairie warbler
13.   Yellow –breasted chat
14.   Prothonotary warbler
15.   Cow bird
16.   Cardinal
17.   Blue grosbeak
18.   Indigo bunting
19.   Carolina chickadee
20.   Tufted titmouse
21.   American crow
22.   Canada geese
23.   Red shouldered hawk
24.   Red-winged blackbird
25.   American goldfinch
26.   Downy woodpecker
27.   Red-bellied woodpecker
28.   Pileated woodpecker
29.   Black vulture
30.   Turkey vulture
31.   Summer tanager
32.   Yellow-billed cuckoo
33.   Cedar waxwing
34.   Oven bird

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5/21/12

Totals for 2012 Caroline County, MD May Bird Count


Thanks to everyone who helped with the count!

Canada Goose
225
Wood Duck
26
Mallard
56
Wild Turkey
34
Northern Bobwhite
7
Double-crested Cormorant
15
American Bittern
1
Great Blue Heron
61
Great Egret
3
Snowy Egret
3
Cattle Egret
4
Green Heron
13
Glossy Ibis
2
Black Vulture
34
Turkey Vulture
281
Osprey
47
Bald Eagle
21
Cooper’s Hawk
3
Red-shouldered Hawk
9
Red-tailed Hawk
24
American Kestrel
3
Virginia Rail
1
Semipalmated Plover
2
Killdeer
36
Spotted Sandpiper
20
Greater Yellowlegs
44
Lesser Yellowlegs
16
Wilson’s Snipe
5
American Woodcock
2
Laughing Gull
141
Ring-billed Gull
300
Herring Gull
3
Least Tern
2
Common Tern
3
Forster’s Tern
5
Rock Pigeon
49
Mourning Dove
116
Yellow-billed Cuckoo
6
Eastern Screech Owl
3
Great Horned Owl
6
Barred Owl
14
Chuck-will's-widow
1
Whip-poor-will
3
Chimney Swift
292
Ruby-throated Hummingbird
18
Belted Kingfisher
3
Red-bellied Woodpecker
56
Downy Woodpecker
30
Hairy Woodpecker
6
Northern Flicker
13
Pileated Woodpecker
25
Eastern Wood-Pewee
64
Acadian Flycatcher
27
Eastern Phoebe
25
Great-crested Flycatcher
127
Eastern Kingbird
26
White-eyed Vireo
16
Yellow-throated Vireo
4
Red-eyed Vireo
59
Blue Jay
62
American Crow
161
Fish Crow
26
Horned Lark
72
Purple Martin
134
Tree Swallow
111
N. Rough-winged Swallow
33
Barn Swallow
187
Carolina Chickadee
73
Tufted Titmouse
74
White-breasted Nuthatch
9
Carolina Wren
72
House Wren
9
Marsh Wren
2
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
9
Eastern Bluebird
140
Veery
2
Swainson's Thrush
1
Hermit Thrush
5
Wood Thrush
29
American Robin
452
Gray Catbird
103
Northern Mockingbird
105
Brown Thrasher
36
European Starling
553
Cedar Waxwing
80
Northern Parula
12
Yellow Warbler
7
Magnolia Warbler
2
Black-throated Blue Warbler
9
Yellow-rumped Warbler
14
Black-throated Green Warbler
1
Pine Warbler
8
Prairie Warbler
18
Palm Warbler
3
Blackpoll Warbler
8
Black-and-white Warbler
15
American Redstart
14
Prothonotary Warbler
14
Worm-eating Warbler
3
Ovenbird
45
Louisiana Waterthrush
1
Kentucky Warbler
6
Common Yellowthroat
45
Yellow-breasted Chat
19
Summer Tanager
8
Scarlet Tanager
10
Eastern Towhee
17
Chipping Sparrow
97
Field Sparrow
26
Vesper Sparrow
3
Grasshopper Sparrow
20
Song Sparrow
19
Northern Cardinal
129
Blue Grosbeak
54
Indigo Bunting
112
Bobolink
45
Red-winged Blackbird
463
Eastern Meadowlark
6
Common Grackle
446
Brown-headed Cowbird
73
Orchard Oriole
53
Baltimore Oriole
16
House Finch
54
American Goldfinch
54
House Sparrow
120
Total Individuals
7050
Species Total
125

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