Fun Bird Quizzes

Check them out and test your knowledge on birds!

Bird Brains Quizzes -- http://www.collieraudubon.info/bird_trivia.html

State birds Trivia game - http://thinks.com/trivia/state_birds.htm

Free Bird Trivia Facts - http://www.triviaplaying.com/04_bird.htm

World Book Bird Quiz - http://www.worldbookonline.com/wb/Quiz?Birds

Yellow Hummingbirds?

For three consecutive years now I have seen a prothonotary warbler drinking from my hummingbird feeder. This year I was able to get a couple of photos. I have taken to the removal of one of the four bee guards in order that he may drink. Has anyone else heard of, or witnessed this behavior before?

Mike Framptom-Price

April 19 results of Bird Banding at Chester River Field Research Center at Chino Farms

Good to see you and the other Caroline bird club members the other day. Below is a list of the birds we caught the other day with totals for each species. We banded a total of 76 new birds of 23 species, these numbers are for the entire day not just the time you where there.

Ruby-crowned Kinglet- 6
Winter Wren- 1
Am. Goldfinch- 11
Field Sparrow- 5
Yellow-palm Warbler- 2*
Chipping Sparrow- 5
Common-yellow Throat- 1*
Myrtle Warbler- 1
Savannah Sparrow- 1
Blue-headed Vireo- 1*
White-throat- 10
Hermit Thrush- 5
Vesper Sparrow- 1*
Sosp Sparrow- 1
Red-winged Blackbird- 5
E. Kingbird- 1*
Brown Thrasher- 4
Mockingbird-1
Am Robin- 3
Blue Jay- 4
Flicker- 2
Common Grackle- 1
C. Chickadee- 1

* are new for the year.

We got our first Hummers today (2 males), Gray Catbird, and Wood thrushes. We have been hearing Wood Thrushes for a few days but caught the first of the year today. Other new birds heard but not caught were Black-throated Green Warbler and Yellow Warbler.

Good birding
Dan

Swan photo by Fil Morrison

On the Choptank River late winter - early Spring

Watch an osprey nest live!

It's that time of the year again!

Here is the link to the Osprey nesting camera at Cape Henlopen that went live last year http://webcast.delaware.gov:8080/Cape/Cape-Osprey

If you can't open it, try downloading Quick Time - its free -- http://www.apple.com/quicktime/download/

Bird Banding at Chino Farm

Sunday, April 19 Trip to observe bird banding. Begins at 9 AM.

If you want to see what it's all about, watch this YouTube video

2009 Caroline County Christmas Bird Count Results

Steve Westre, our Christmas Count compiler reports the following:

We're going to cut down the number of snow geese since there is most certainly double counting. Looks like we got 92 species--a normal year. The one number that was really exceptional was the number of Robins we saw--3290. We've been in the 400's before but never broke 500.

Great Blue Heron	24
Tundra Swan	901
Snow Goose	43368
*Snow Goose (Blue)	103
Ross's Goose	3
Canada Goose	9306
Wood Duck	6
Mallard	279
Am. Black Duck	77
N Pintail	7
Canvasback	14
Lesser Scaup	6
Greater Scaup	1
Ring-necked Duck	89
Bufflelhead	14
Hooded Merganser	3
Common Merganser	6
Ruddy Duck	2
Black Vulture	31
Turkey Vulture	280
Sharp-shinned Hawk	4
Cooper's Hawk	6
*Accipiter sp.	1
N Harrier	15
Red-shouldered Hawk	3
Red-tailed Hawk	20
*Bald Eagle Adult	31
*Bald Eagle Immature	6
Am Kestrel	19
*Falcon sp.	1
Wild Turkey	33
N Bobwhite	6
Virginia Rail	1
Killdeer	67
Am. Woodcock	9
Ring-billed Gull	803
Herring Gull	27
Gr Black-backed Gull	1
Rock Dove	239
Mourning Dove	519
Eastern Screech Owl	18
Great Horned Owl	17
Barred Owl	14
Belted Kingfisher	8
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker	16
Red-bellied Woodpecker	80
Downy Woodpecker	50
Hairy Woodpecker	19
N Flicker	127
Pileated Woodpecker	23
E Phoebe	7
Blue Jay	191
Am. Crow	389
Fish Crow	7
Horned Lark	485
Carolina Chickadee	217
Brown Creeper	15
Tufted Titmouse	99
White-breasted Nuthatch	14
Red-breasted Nuthatch	1
Caroline Wren	125
Winter Wren	21
Golden-crowned Kinglet	51
Ruby-crowned Kinglet	14
Eastern Bluebird	240
Hermit Thrush	71
Am Robin	3290
Gray Catbird	1
N Mockingbird	105
Brown Thrasher	4
Am Pipit	205
Cedar Waxwing	114
Eur Starling	1196
Myrtle Warbler	53
Pine Warbler	7
Palm Warbler	6
N Cardinal	277
Eastern Towhee	27
Chipping Sparrow	75
Field Sparrow	28
Savannah Sparrow	32
Song Sparrow	113
Swamp Sparrow	17
Fox Sparrow	6
White-crowned Sparrow	9
White-throated Sparrow	1011
Slate-colored Junco	913
E Meadowlark	64
Red-winged Blackbird	1123
Common Grackle	183
Brown-headed Cowbird	17
*Blackbird sp.	60
House Sparrow	139
Am Goldfinch	171
Pine Siskin	2
House Finch	24
Purple Finch	21