May Count 2010 May 8th County Baltimore

Party Leader David Thorndill Address 3762 Foxford Stream Road, Baltimore, MD 21236

Phone 443-840-1314 Email


Red-throated Loon

Common Loon

Pied-billed Grebe

Horned Grebe

Red-necked Grebe*

Eared Grebe**

Northern Fulmar**

Sooty Shearwater**

Manx Shearwater**

Wilson's Storm Petrel**

Northern Gannet*

Brown Pelican*

Double-crested Cormorant

Great Cormorant*

Anhinga**

American Bittern

Least Bittern

Great Blue Heron 1

Great Egret 5

Snowy Egret

Little Blue Heron

Tricolored Heron

Cattle Egret

Green Heron

Black-crowned Night-Heron

Yellow-crowned Night-Heron

Glossy Ibis

Black Vulture

Turkey Vulture 1

Greater White-fronted Goose**

Canada Goose 198

Brant*

Mute Swan

Tundra Swan

Wood Duck

Gadwall

American Wigeon

American Black Duck

Mallard 55

Blue-winged Teal

Northern Shoveler

Northern Pintail

Green-winged Teal

Canvasback

Redhead*

Ring-necked Duck

Greater Scaup

Lesser Scaup

Common Eider**

King Eider**

Harlequin Duck**

Long-tailed Duck

Black Scoter*

Surf Scoter

White-winged Scoter

Common Goldeneye

Bufflehead

Hooded Merganser

Common Merganser

Red-breasted Merganser

Ruddy Duck

Osprey

Swallow-tailed Kite**

Bald Eagle

Northern Harrier

Sharped-shinned Hawk

Cooper's Hawk

Northern Goshawk*

Red-shouldered Hawk

Broad-winged Hawk

Red-tailed Hawk 1

Rough-legged Hawk*

Golden Eagle**

American Kestrel

Merlin*

Peregrine Falcon*

Chuckar*

Ringed-necked Pheasant

Ruffed Grouse

Wild Turkey

Northern Bobwhite

Yellow Rail**

Black Rail*

Clapper Rail

King Rail

Virginia Rail

Sora

Common Moorhen

American Coot

Sandhill Crane**

Black-bellied Plover

American Golden-Plover**

Wilson's Plover**

Semipalmated Plover

Piping Plover**

Killdeer 3

American Oystercatcher

Black-necked Stilt*

American Avocet*

Greater Yellowlegs

Lesser Yellowlegs

Solitary Sandpiper 2

Willet

Spotted Sandpiper ________1

Upland Sandpiper*

Whimbrel*

Long-billed Curlew**

Hudsonian Godwit**

Marbeled Godwit**

Ruddy Turnstone

Red Knot*

Sanderling

Semipalmated Sandpiper

Western Sandpiper*

Least Sandpiper

White-rumped Sandpiper*

Baird's Sandpiper**

Pectoral Sandpiper

Purple Sandpiper**

Dunlin

Curlew Sandpiper**

Stilt Sandpiper*

Buff-breasted Sandpiper**

Ruff**

Short-billed Dowitcher

Long-billed Dowitcher**

Common Snipe

American Woodcock

Wilson's Phalarope*

Red-necked Phalarope*

Red Phalarope**

Pomerine Jaeger*

Parasitic Jaeger*

Laughing Gull

Franklin's Gull***

Little Gull***

Black-headed Gull**

Bonaparte's Gull

Ring-billed Gull 23

Herring Gull

Thayer's Gull***

Iceland Gull

Lesser Black-backed Gull*

Glaucous Gull*

Great Black-backed Gull

Sabine's Gull***

Black-legged Kittiwake**

Gull-billed tern**

Caspian Tern

Royal Tern

Sandwich Tern***

Roseate Tern***

Common Tern

Arctic Tern***

Foster's Tern

Least Tern ________1

Black Tern*

Black Skimmer*

Rock Pigeon

Eurasian Collared-Dove***

Mourning Dove 12

Black-billed Cuckoo

Yellow-billed Cuckoo

Barn Owl

Eastern Screech Owl

Great Horned Owl

Barred Owl

Long-eared Owl*

Short-eared Owl*

Northern Saw-whet Owl*

Common Nighthawk

Chuck-will's-widow

Whip-poor-will

Chimney Swift

Ruby-throated Hummingbird

Belted Kingfisher

Red-headed Woodpecker

Red-bellied Woodpecker

Yellow-bellied Sapsucker*

Downy Woodpecker

Hairy Woodpecker

Northern Flicker 2

Pileated Woodpecker

Olive-sided Flycatcher*

Eastern Wood-Pewee

Yellow-bellied Flyctacher*

Acadian Flycatcher

Alder Flycatcher*

Willow Flycatcher

Least Flycatcher

Eastern Phoebe

Great-crested Flycatcher

Western Kingbird***

Eastern Kingbird 5

Loggerhead Shrike*

White-eyed Vireo

Blue-headed Vireo

Yellow-throated Vireo

Warbling Vireo

Philadelphia Vireo*

Red-eyed Vireo

Blue Jay

American Crow 9*

Fish Crow

Common Raven*

Horned Lark

Purple Martin

Tree Swallow

N. Rough-winged Swallow 10

Bank Swallow

Cliff Swallow

Barn Swallow ________________________19

Carolina Chickadee

Black-capped Chickadee

Tufted Titmouse

Red-breasted Nuthatch*

White-breasted Nuthatch 1

Brown-headed Nuthatch

Brown Creeper

Carolina Wren

Bewick's Wren**

House Wren

Winter wren*

Sedge Wren**

Marsh Wren

Golden-crowned Kinglet

Ruby-crowned Kinglet

Blue-gray Gnatcatcher

Eastern Bluebird

Veery

Gray-cheeked Thrush*

Bicknell's Thrush*

Swainson's Thrush

Hermit Thrush

Wood Thrush

American Robin 52

Gray Catbird 3

Northern Mockingbird 12

Brown Thrasher

European Starling ________93

American Pipit

Cedar Waxwing

Blue-winged Warbler

Brewster's Warbler*

Lawrence's Warbler*

Golden-winged Warbler

Tennessee Warbler

Orange-crowned Warbler*

Nashville Warbler

Northern Parula

Yellow Warbler

Chestnut-sided Warbler

Magnolia Warbler

Cape May Warbler

Black-throated Blue Warbler ________

Yellow-rumped Warbler

Black-throated Green Warbler

Blackburnian Warbler

Yellow-thoated Warbler

Pine Warbler

Prairie Warbler

Palm Warbler

Bay-breasted Warbler

Blackpoll Warbler

Cerulean Warbler

Black-and-white Warbler

American Redstart

Prothonotary Warbler

Worm-eating Warbler

Swainson's Warbler**

Ovenbird

Northern Waterthrush

Louisiana Waterthrush

Kentucky Warbler

Connecticut Warbler**

Mourning Warbler*

Common Yellowthroat 3

Hooded Warbler

Wilson's Warbler

Canada Warbler

Yellow-breasted Chat

Summer Tanager

Scarlet Tanager

Western Tanager**

Eastern Towhee Bachman's Sparrow**

American Tree Sparrow**

Chipping Sparrow _________1

Clay-colored Sparrow**

Field Sparrow

Vesper Sparrow

Lark Sparrow**

Lark Bunting**

Savannah Sparrow

Grasshopper Sparrow

Henslow's Sparrow*

Salt-marsh Sharp-tailed Sparrow*

Nelson's Sharp-tailed Sparrow*

Seaside Sparrow

Fox Sparrow*

Song Sparrow 4

Lincoln's Sparrow

Swamp Sparrow

White-throated Sparrow

Harris's Sparrow**

White-crowned Sparrow

Dark-eyed Junco

Northern Cardinal 4 Rose-breasted Grosbeak

Black-headed Grosbeak**

Blue Grosbeak

Lazuli Bunting**

Indigo Bunting

Painted bunting*

Dickcissel*

Bobolink

Red-winged Blackbird 58

Eastern Meadowlark

Yellow-headed Blackbird**

Rusty Blackbird*

Common Grackle 54

Boat-tailed Grackle

Brown-headed Cowbird

Shiny Cowbird***

Orchard Oriole 1

Baltimore Oriole

Purple Finch

House Finch

Red Crossbill**

White-winged Crossbill**

Common Redpoll**

Pine Siskin

American Goldfinch ________1

Evening Grosbeak

House Sparrow 34

scaup ssp.

gull ssp.

crow ssp.

blackbird ssp.

Total individuals 672

Species Total 31

# Parties 1

# Observers 1

Miles in Car 4

Hours in Car 2

Miles on Foot 3

Hours on Foot 5

Miles Owling/Night

Hours Owling/Night

Miles by Horse

Hours by Boat

Miles on Tractor

Hours on Tractor

Miles on Bike

Hours on Bike

Start time: 7:00 am

Stop time: 3:00 pm

Net hours: 6 hours

List Party’s Observers’ Names Below:

David Thorndill

7:00 am sunny, 50%, 65 degrees F 9:00 am sunny, 50% clouds, 75 F

10:00am 100% cloudy

11:00 am sunny, 50% clouds

1:00 –breezy, sunny, 100% cloudy, 85F

* Crows-small crows (Fish?) seen earlier in the week Today probably mostly common crows

Use Rarity Reporting Guidelines When A Species name is followed by:

* Some details needed

** Full details needed!

*** NEVER REPORTED BEFORE

Note: Rock dove is now rock pigeon

Species in bold type are in their breeding “Safe Dates”. Please enter the correct breeding behavior code on the Incidental Report Form provided by your County Compiler.

The area observed was the greater White Marsh Mall to CCBC Essex Campus area

(between Rt 43 and Rossville Blvd, and Perry Hall Blvd to Franklin Square drive)