Havre de Grace: Oc. 19, 1997
Rick Blom (rblom@blazie.com)
Sun, 19 Oct 1997 20:38:50 -0400
I covered the marina at Havre de Grace from 3:10 - 6:00 p.m. Cool,
cloudy, breezy.
Pied-billed Grebe 16
Double-crested Cormorant 30
Great Blue Heron 12
GREAT EGRET 1 (sitting on flats)
Canada Goose 750 (500 flyovers)
Mallard 100+ (many dock mallards)
Northern Shoveler 2
RING-NECKED DUCK 1 (female)
Bald Eagle 2 (imm)
American Coot 135
Killdeer 18
Laughing Gull 9 (all adults; # high here this late)
Bonaparte's Gull 1
Ring-billed Gull 250 (1 in full juvenile plumage)
Herring Gull 115 (over 40 in juv/1st winter)
LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULL 1 (1st summer/2nd winter transition)
Great Black-backed Gull 22
Forster's Tern 125
Mourning Dove 8
Rock Dove 16
Belted Kingfisher 1
Red-bellied Woodpecker 1
Tree Swallow 16
Fish Crow 7
American Crow 2
crow sp. 5
Blue Jay 4
Ruby-crowned Kinglet 2
Carolina Chickadee 1
Red-breasted Nuthatch 1
European Starling 40
Northern Mockingbird 3
Yellow-rumped Warbler 20
Northern Cardinal 2
Song Sparrow 3
House Finch 3
House Sparrow 100
Rick Blom
rblom@blazie.com
Bel Air, Maryland
"Did St. Francis preach to the birds? Whatever for? If he really liked
birds he would have done better to preach to the cats."
Rebecca West