Cecil County Landfill: 12/19/98
Eugene J. Scarpulla (gscarp@erols.com)
Sun, 20 Dec 1998 07:08:39 -0500
This is a report for the Cecil County Landfill in North East, Maryland
for Saturday, December 19, 1998 as part of the Elkton Christmas Bird
Count.
Observers: Rick Blom and Gene Scarpulla
(2 observers in 1 party)
Limits of Field Work: 0730 - 1600
Total Party hours: 8.5 (all on foot)
Total Party Miles: 0
Black Vulture 4
Turkey Vulture 50
Snow Goose (white morph) 750 (flyover)
Snow Goose (blue morph) 2 (flyover)
Canada Goose 25 (flyover)
Bald Eagle 1 (immature)
Cooper's Hawk 1
Red-tailed Hawk 1 (immature)
Killdeer 3
*LAUGHING GULL *2 (adult winter)
Ring-billed Gull 800
Herring Gull 2000
*ICELAND GULL *3 (first-winter)
*ICELAND/THAYER'S sp. *1 (first-winter)
*LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULL *6 (1 third-winter, 5 adult winter)
Great Black-backed Gull 300
Northern Flicker 1
Blue Jay 2
American Crow 50
Fish Crow 25
crow sp. 225
Tufted Titmouse 1
Carolina Wren 2
Northern Mockingbird 1
European Starling 500
Field Sparrow 9
Savannah Sparrow 3
Song Sparrow 3
White-throated Sparrow 6
Northern Cardinal 1
Red-winged Blackbird 1000 (fly over)
Common Grackle 4000 (fly over)
Total Species: 29
Gene Scarpulla
Towson, Maryland
gscarp@erols.com