Horsehead birding
Geoff Graff (ggraff@erols.com)
Tue, 05 May 1998 23:40:49 -0400
Today 5/5, at Wildfowl Trust of North America at Horsehead Wetlands
Center south of Grasonville in Queen's Anne County, an unusual warbler
that never been reported there before is an GOLDEN-WINGED WARBLER was
seen and heard near the entrance to Marshy Creek Trail.
Other birds seen:
1 Double-crested Cormorant
4 Great Blue Heron
4 Great Egret
25 Snowy Egret
4 Green-backed Heron
1 Glossy Ibis
6 Mute Swan
1 Snow Goose
59 Canada Goose
54 Mallard
4 Am. Black Duck
5 Wood Duck
3 Blue-winged Teal
2 Northern Shoveler
1 Lesser Scaup
1 Common Goldeneye
102 Ruddy Duck
5 Turkey Vulture
2 Black Vulture
4 Osprey
1 Bald Eagle
1 Cooper's Hawk
1 N. Bobwhite
7 Wild Turkey
1 Killdeer
1 Greater Yellowleg
3 Lesser Yellowleg
4 Solitary Sandpiper
2 Spotted Sandpiper
9 Least Sandpiper
1 Laughing Gull
3 Ring-billed Gull
2 Herring Gull
1 Great Black-backed Gull
3 Common Tern
1 Forster's Tern
5 Least Tern
13 Mourning Dove
3 Great Horned Owl - 2 adult near meadow and 1 fledged in Piney Point
1 Downy Woodpecker
5 Northern Flicker
46 Tree Swallow
23 Barn Swallow
7 Blue Jay
33 Am. Crow
6 Fish Crow
4 Carolina Chickadee
2 Carolina Wren
2 House Wren - near complete nest in Bluebird's nestbox
1 Marsh Wren
2 Eastern Bluebbird
11 Am. Robin
2 Gray Catbird
6 N. Mockingbird
28 European Starling
1 Yellow Warbler
8 Common Yellowthroat
1 Golden-winged Warbler
8 N. Cardinal
3 Eastern Towhee
4 Field Sparrow
3 Seaside Sparrow
3 Song Sparrow
10 Swamp Sparrow
59 Red-winged Blackbird
2 Eastern Meadowlark
58 Common Grackle
20 Brown-headed Cowbird
3 House Finch
22 Am. Goldfinch
1 House Sparrow
Kevin Graff - volunteer - director of bluebird monitor program,
director of bird recording and wild animal rescue at
Horsehead Wetlands Center
Baltimore, MD
ggraff@erols.com