For the second consecutive year I did the May Count at Fairmount WMA and surrounding area in Somerset County. In the morning there was intermittent rain, heavy at times, that began at dawn. Later there was partial clearing and more wind. Consequently there were many fewer passerines than last year to be found. In fact, I probably saw no transient migrant passerines.
Canada Goose 37, many young
Mute Swan 2
Black Duck 8
Mallard 5
Black Duck X Mallard hybrid 2, male paired with a Black Duck & female paired with a Black Duck
Bobwhite 5
DC Cormorant 8
AMERICAN BITTERN 1, heard only, at Fishing Island, a possible breeder
Great Blue Heron 2
Great Egret 8
Snowy Egret 4
Tricolored Heron 2
Green Heron 4
Glossy Ibis 13
Black Vulture 6, mostly at the landfill
Turkey Vulture 20
Osprey 5
Red-tailed Hawk 2
Black-bellied Plover 1, at Rumbley
Semipalmated Plover 23
Killdeer 9
Spotted Sandpiper 2
Solitary Sandpiper 3
Greater Yellowlegs 7
Willet 9
Lesser Yellowlegs 2
Semipalmated Sandpiper 11
Least Sandpiper 20
Dunlin 19
STILT SANDPIPER 1, molting, in marsh on Frenchtown Road
Laughing Gull 940
Ring-billed Gull 10
Herring Gull 340
Great Black-back 3
Forster's Tern 16
Royal Tern 15
Feral Pigeon 6
Mourning Dove 21
Great Horned Owl 2, heard only, Maddux Island
Red-bellied Woodpecker 1, heard only
Hairy Woodpecker 1, heard only
Flicker 1
Pileated Woodpecker 1, heard only
Pewee 3, heard only
Crested Flycatcher 6, heard only
Kingbird 12
White-eyed Vireo 4
Red-eyed Vireo 12
Blue Jay 2, heard only
American Crow 11
Fish Crow 16, mostly at the landfill
Horned Lark 1, heard only, Revells Neck
Purple Martin 39
Tree Swallow 12
Rough-winged Swallow 4
Bank Swallow 1
Barn Swallow 49
Carolina Chickadee 10
Tufted Titmouse 9
Brown-headed Nuthatch 4
Carolina Wren 27
House Wren 4
Marsh Wren 17
Gnatcatcher 9
Bluebird 5
Wood Thrush 1, heard only
Robin 16
Catbird 7
Mockingbird 7
Starling 50
Cedar Waxwing 1
Parula 1, heard only
Yellow Warbler 7
Pine Warbler 12
Prairie Warbler 1, heard only
Ovenbird 12, heard only
Yellowthroat 41
Chat 1, heard only
Summer Tanager 7, no Scarlets
Towhee 4, heard only
Chipping Sparrow 22
Field Sparrow 3
Grasshopper Sparrow 2, Revells Neck
Seaside Sparrow 54, outscoring all other sparrows combined
Song Sparrow 12
Cardinal 20
Blue Grosbeak 9
Indigo Bunting 6
Red-winged Blackbird 90
Meadowlark 1, heard only, Revells Neck
Common Grackle 32
Boat-tailed Grackle 15
Cowbird 7
Orchard Oriole 12
House Finch 1, a male on a lawn in Frenchtown
Goldfinch 6, heard only
House Sparrow 16
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Bob Ringler
Eldersburg MD
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