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

Birding program at Camp Todd 4-28-12

      On April 28, 2012  for the second year in a row the Caroline  County  Bird Club  gave a birding program  at the Girl Scout camp [Camp Todd] on Beauchamp Branch Road  near  Denton as part of their Earth Day celebration. Several members  of our chapter gave a short talk about  birds that can be found at the camp, bird nests and how to use  binoculars from about 9:00 AM till 12:30 PM.  We had three groups of scouts come through our station. Below list is a combo of before, during and after our program. A quick note: Camp Todd is open to public birding but birders must first get advance permission from Ranger Bob Foote.  

 In early 2011 the Caroline County Bird Club published a bird list for the camp of the most commonly found birds there. Habitat there includes woods, lake, overgrown fields and hedgerows. Copies of the bird list are available at the camp in a metal box behind a sign near the parking area. Birds seen or heard that day are as follows:

 
 
Great  Blue Heron     1     flyover carrying a stick 
Canada Goose      12      including  several newly hatched young 
Turkey Vulture        1
Osprey        2
Killdeer      2
Spotted Sandpiper     3
Greater yellowlegs     2
Solitary   Sandpiper     1
Mourning Dove           1
Chimney Swift           1
Red bellied woodpecker    2
Downy Woodpecker         2
Pileated Woodpecker   1 
Eastern Phoebe          2
Tree  Swallow            4
Barn Swallow                12
Bank  Swallow               12
Blue Jay                     1
American  Crow           2
Carolina Chickadee      2
Tufted Titmouse          2
Carolina Wren                1
House   Wren       1 first of the year for me , At a nestbox
Eastern Bluebird        2
Wood Thrush   1 singing   out by Rt  16 on my way back out 
American Robin         3
Brown Thrasher        2
Chipping Sparrow       2
White throated Sparrow    12       girls got to hear some of them singing  in the  trees 
Red winged Blacbird     2
Brown headed Cowbird     2
 
Happy Birding
Danny Poet
Queenstown,Maryland 
birder231@hotmail
      
 
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     
 
 
            

 On Sunday April  29 2012 this male Black and White warbler appeared at my in ground  Bird bath.I was able to get some photos . Posted this one for you all to enjoy.

Thursday, May 17, 2012 Andi Pupke: Monarch Tagging

Thursday, May 17, 2012

The Caroline County Bird Club

invites you

to Andi Pupke’s  presentation about Chesapeake Wildlife Heritage’s Monarch Tagging Program

7:30 PM

at the Caroline County Public Library, 100 Market St., Denton

Large Meeting Room

No butterflies migrate like the monarchs of North America. They travel up to three thousand miles. They are the only butterflies to make such a long, two way migration every year. Their migration is more the type we expect from birds.

Caroline County Bird Club's April 19 meeting featuring Ron Gutberlet to talk about his "Big Year"

Thursday, April 19 at 7:30 PM, Caroline County Public Library, 100 Market Street, Denton, MD - FREE  “A Year on the Road with North American Birds” presented by Ron Gutberlet. 

During a Lower 48 “Big Year” in 2005, Ron Gutberlet visited all 48 of those states, drove about 70,000 miles, hiked over 100 miles, took six trips by plane (three specifically for birding), and spent nine days at sea. He met boat captains, truck drivers, a midwife, backpackers, sheriff’s deputies (uh oh!), state troopers (UH OH!), border patrol agents (no problemo), car mechanics, vacationing families, park rangers, mountain bike chicks, whale watchers, a naturalist surfer girl, hobos, and the poet laureate of Boise City, Oklahoma. And of course, he met birders. It was quite a year, and Ron looks forward to sharing a bit of it.

Thursday, March 15, 2012 Caroline County Bird Club Program on the Health of the Chesapeake Bay Oyster

       Please come to our free program “Using Hatcheries to Help Restore Oysters to the Chesapeake Bay” presented by Don Meritt. 

7:30 PM, Caroline County Public Library, 100 Market St., Denton.

Not only is Don an expert birder, but as the Oyster Hatchery Director at the Horn Point Laboratory near Cambridge, he is a leading researcher on oysters of the Chesapeake Bay and the work conducted for their restoration.  Anyone interested in birds is interested in the environment as a whole.  The Chesapeake Bay is an important part of our Eastern Shore eco-system and the oyster plays a vital role.

Come learn more about Don's work!

February 16 Movie Night - "The Big Year"

Come join us to watch the movie "The Big Year".
Steve Martin, Jack Black and Owen Wilson star in this bird watching comedy based on the book 'The Big Year: A Tale of Man, Nature and Fowl Obsession' by Mark Obmascik. The three play birders  each try to outdo each other in a 'big year' (a competition in which birders compete to see who can spot the most different species of birds in a single year in a given area, in this case the U.S.).
  1 hour, 40 minutes long.

Caroline County Public Library, Denton's large meeting room - 7:30 PM. 

Popcorn and drinks will be served.