I had a productive morning at the Blue Mash Nature Trail in Montgomery County this fine Monday morning with a nice round 50 species. Highlights were first-of-year Yellow Warblers and Eastern Kingbirds (no eBird reports yet for Mont. Co. on these two), a singing House Wren, a Common Yellowthroat doing its song, Green Herons, a Gray Catbird, a small group of Purple Finches, and yellow Palm Warblers. Field Sparrows were singing all over as were Eastern Towhees. The Tree Swallows and Eastern Bluebirds are actively competing for the houses. Raptors were well represented with Broad-winged, Red-shouldered, and Red-tailed Hawks as well as American Kestrel. Brown Thrashers and Blue-gray Gnatcatchers were plentiful. Little variety in water birds on the two ponds (C. Goose, Mallards, and Dbl-cr. Cormorants), but the land birding was great.
While I have not put it on my list, I think I may have heard a Ring-necked Pheasant. There are two reports from this area of Montgomery County in 2007 and 2008 in eBird. I don’t have much experience with the Pheasant’s sounds. I listed to calls online when I got home.
My complete report from eBird follows.
Jim Nelson
Bethesda, MD
Location: Blue Mash Nature Trail
Observation date: 4/18/11
Number of species: 50
Canada Goose 12
Mallard 3
Double-crested Cormorant 4
Great Blue Heron 1
Green Heron 3
Turkey Vulture 1
Red-shouldered Hawk 1
Broad-winged Hawk 2
Red-tailed Hawk 1
Buteo sp. 1
American Kestrel 2
Mourning Dove 5
Belted Kingfisher 1
Red-bellied Woodpecker 3
Downy Woodpecker 7
Downy/Hairy Woodpecker 1
Northern Flicker 3
Eastern Kingbird 2
Blue Jay 3
American Crow 1
Fish Crow 2
crow sp. 1
Tree Swallow 28
Carolina Chickadee 3
Tufted Titmouse 6
White-breasted Nuthatch 1
Carolina Wren 1
House Wren 1
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher 9
Ruby-crowned Kinglet 7
Eastern Bluebird 8
American Robin 17
Gray Catbird 1
Northern Mockingbird 6
Brown Thrasher 7
European Starling 6
Yellow Warbler 2
Yellow-rumped Warbler (Myrtle) 10
Palm Warbler (Yellow) 4
Common Yellowthroat 1
Eastern Towhee 17
Chipping Sparrow 3
Field Sparrow 12
Song Sparrow 10
Swamp Sparrow 5
White-throated Sparrow 11
sparrow sp. 2
Northern Cardinal 12
Red-winged Blackbird 12
Common Grackle (Purple) 3
Brown-headed Cowbird 9
Purple Finch 4
House Finch 2
American Goldfinch 15
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