Horsehead report
Geoff Graff (ggraff@erols.com)
Wed, 14 Oct 1998 21:13:45 -0400
Went back to work at Horsehead Wetlands Center in Grasonville today.
While volunteering there, I did some bird reports.
Common Loon - 1 winter plumage
Double-crested Cormorant - 5
Great Blue Heron - 6
Mute Swan - 11
Canada Geese - 805 (at least 45 is year-round resident)
Mallard - 101
Am. Black Duck - 12
scoter sp. - 11 (gone before I sent up the scope)
Turkey Vulture - 19
Black Vulture - 1
Osprey - 2
Red-tailed Hawk - 1
N. Harrier - 2
Semipalmated Plover - 1
Killdeer - 1
Belted Kingfisher - 1
Laughing Gull - 2
Ring-billed Gull - 14
Herring Gull - 3
Mourning Dove - 13
N. Flicker - 2
Am. Crow - 38
Fish Crow - 6
Carolina Chickadee - 2
Tufted Titmouse - 1
Carolina Wren - 2
Golden-crowned Kinglet - 1
Ruby-crowned Kinglet - 2
Am Robin - 6
N. Mockingbird - 10
European Starling - 387
Magnolia Warbler - 1 fall plumage male
Yellow-rumped Warbler - 15 they're back!
Pine Warbler - 1 male
C. Yellowthroat - 1 female
N. Cardinal - 2
Eastern Towhee - 1
Field Sparrow - 2
Savannah Sparrow - 3
Song Sparrow - 8
Swamp Sparrow - 4
White-throated Sparrow - 17
"Slate-colored" Junco - 3 they're back!
Red-winged Blackbird - 38
C. Grackle - 12
Brown-headed Cowbird - 7
House Finch - 1
Kevin Graff
Baltimore, MD
ggraff@erols.com