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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

5/1/12

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.

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