Kent County Birding - Bird Count
MOS Fall Count: Kent County, Maryland September 20, 2008
Kent County Bird Club
Maryland Ornithological Society
Snow Goose - 130
Canada Goose - 1620
Mute Swan - 34
Wood Duck - 8
American Wigeon - 2
American Black Duck - 32
Mallard - 200
Northern Shoveler 13 – 10 at Chesapeake Farms (HQ pond)
Northern Pintail - 46
Green-winged Teal - 135
Ruddy Duck - 5
Double-crested Cormorant - 200
Great Blue Heron - 25
Great Egret - 6
Snowy Egret - 1 – Alton Farms, Eastern Neck
Cattle Egret - 12
Green Heron - 3
Black-crowned Night-Heron - 3 – Green Lane Landing, Rock Hall
Wild Turkey - 5 – Broad Neck
Black Vulture - 28
Turkey Vulture - 117
Osprey - 10
Bald Eagle - 17 ad, 23 imm – 40
Northern Harrier - 2
Sharp-shinned Hawk - 4
Cooper’s Hawk - 1
Red-shouldered Hawk - 1
Red-tailed Hawk - 3
American Kestrel - 16
Merlin - 1
Greater Yellowlegs - 1
Lesser Yellowlegs - 12
Least Sandpiper - 4
Pectoral Sandpiper - 1
American Woodcock - 1
Laughing Gull - 300
Ring-billed Gull - 268
Herring Gull - 6
Great Black-backed Gull - 33
Caspian Tern - 37
Royal Tern - 15
Forster’s Tern - 94
Rock Pigeon - 21
Mourning Dove - 154
Yellow-billed Cuckoo - 1
Eastern Screech-Owl - 1
Great Horned Owl - 2
Barred Owl - 1
Common Nighthawk - 1 – Over Stockton Startt Rd, Chestertown
Ruby-throated Hummingbird - 5
Belted Kingfisher - 6
Red-bellied Woodpecker - 29
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker - 1
Downy Woodpecker - 11
Hairy Woodpecker - 11
Northern Flicker - 28
Pileated Woodpecker - 1
Eastern Wood-Pewee - 22
Least Flycatcher - 1 – Duck Inn Trail, Eastern Neck NWR
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Eastern Phoebe - 15
Great Crested Flycatcher - 1
Eastern Kingbird - 2
White-eyed Vireo - 2
Red-eyed Vireo - 6
Blue Jay - 206
American Crow 63
Fish Crow - 17
Crow (sp) - 2
Horned Lark - 14
Tree Swallow - 173
Northern Rough-winged Swallow - 30
Barn Swallow - 1
Carolina Chickadee - 54
Tufted Titmouse - 36
Red-breasted Nuthatch - 2
White-breasted Nuthatch - 4
Brown-headed Nuthatch - 3 – Duck Inn Trail, Eastern Neck NWR
Carolina Wren - 82
House Wren - 12
Marsh Wren - 1
Brown Creeper - 1
Ruby-crowned Kinglet - 1
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher - 3
Eastern Bluebird - 27
Veery - 1
Wood Thrush - 3
American Robin - 52
Gray Catbird - 38
Northern Mockingbird - 79
Brown Thrasher - 6
European Starling - 520
Cedar Waxwing - 16
Northern Parula - 2
Chestnut-sided Warbler - 1
Magnolia Warbler - 5
Black-throated Blue Warbler - 1
Pine Warbler - 10
Prairie Warbler - 6
Palm Warbler - 16
Black-and-white Warbler - 1
American Redstart - 5
Ovenbird - 1
Common Yellowthroat - 23
Scarlet Tanager - 4
Eastern Towhee - 9
Chipping Sparrow - 12
Field Sparrow - 4
Seaside Sparrow 1 – Eastern Neck Narrows, Eastern Neck NWR
Savannah Sparrow - 1
Song Sparrow - 4
Northern Cardinal - 172
Rose-breasted Grosbeak - 3
Blue Grosbeak - 15
Indigo Bunting - 47
Bobolink - 7
Red-winged Blackbird - 375
Eastern Meadowlark - 1
Common Grackle - 5020
Brown-headed Cowbird - 80
House Finch - 4
American Goldfinch - 30
House Sparrow - 165 |
Total Species 121
Total Individuals 11,270
Bold type indicates unusual species or high count.
9 Observers in 4 Parties
Party Hours: 29.5 hours (14.5 on foot, 15.0 by car)
Party Miles: 172 miles (13 on foot, 159 by car)
Observers: Bob & M. J. Ampula; Walter Ellison; Jack Foehrenbach; Maren Gimpel; Nancy Martin; Kathleen O’Connor; Meg Parry; Dan Small.
Weather: 50o to 69oF, wind 0 (pre-dawn AM) to 5-11 mph NNE (late AM & PM), clear (AM) than clouding up as morning progressed, partly to mostly cloudy (PM).
Notes: Geese started arriving on the 16th and have been building up since then. A high count of Prairie Warblers for Kent County, they were with Palm Warblers in blooming groundsel trees (Baccharis). Seaside Sparrow was at "usual" place at north end of Eastern Neck I. across from Swan Boardwalk in salt marsh east of the road. It appeared to be a juvenile, fresh unworn plumage. Also responded easily to pishing. Sooty sparrow with dull yellow lores, touch of chestnut in flight feathers, blurry blackish streaks (w/broad smeary spot) on a gray ground, whitish throat and belly. Flat call like a small pinched female red-wing, "chet chet". A singing male was present in May, could they have nested? Fun to speculate but no real proof. A generally poor day for large numbers and diversity of passerine migrants. Water also too high for shorebirds. About half of the Blue Jays were migrants on Eastern Neck.
