Pickering Creek Sightings - Talbot County
Leslie Roslund (Lroslund@bluecrab.org)
Fri, 16 Apr 1999 19:55:40 -0400
This week I visited Pickering Creek Environmental Center, near Easton,
Talbot County, for morning birding on Wednesday and again on Friday.
Highlights:
4/14 Palm Warblers (2) (yellow race)
Brown Thrasher (4) - singing elegantly
Sparrows: Chipping, White-Throated, Field, Savannah
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
Meadowlarks
4/16 Oven Bird (1) - singing
White-eyed Vireo (1) - singing
Grasshopper Sparrow (1) - singing
4/16 was also my day for Bluebird nest monitoring at Pickering Creek. My
route covered 25 boxes, with findings as follows:
Bluebird Nests 11 ( one with 5 eggs, four with 4 eggs, one with 3 eggs,
and one female that stayed on the nest, preventing any egg count) - the
other nests new, and nearly ready, but empty
Titmouse or Chickadee nests 4 - but no eggs present
Flying Squirrel nest 1
Boxes still unused 9
The Bluebirds of Pickering Creek seem to be off to a great start.
Les Roslund
Lroslund@bluecrab.org
Easton, MD