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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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