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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