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Location Chesapeake Bay Environmental Center (Horsehead)
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Owner Brian Rollfinke

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Protocol:  Traveling
  • Observers:  12
  • Distance:  2 mi

Checklist Comments

WBU Bird Walk. Chilly (mid 30's) and cloudy, with a few light snow squalls.

Totals

34
Species Observed
+2 other taxa, 1,039 individuals

Observations

  1. Canada Goose

    Number observed:  240

  2. Tundra Swan

    Number observed:  26

  3. Gadwall

    Number observed:  3

  4. Mallard

    Number observed:  28

  5. Canvasback

    Number observed:  600

    Details

    Incredibly long raft in Marshy Creek. Counted by 20's.

  6. Greater Scaup

    Number observed:  5

  7. Lesser Scaup

    Number observed:  1

    Details

    lone hen in Lake Knapp

  8. Surf Scoter

    Number observed:  2

    Details

    M-F pair

  9. scoter sp.

    Number observed:  7

  10. Long-tailed Duck

    Number observed:  1

    Details

    handsome drake, which landed in Hog Bay, only to be scared away by a fast-moving boat a minute later

  11. Bufflehead

    Number observed:  31

  12. Common Goldeneye

    Number observed:  1

    Details

    hen

  13. Hooded Merganser

    Number observed:  2

    Details

    M-F pair in Lake Knapp

  14. Ruddy Duck

    Number observed:  22

  15. Ring-billed Gull

    Number observed:  2

  16. Great Blue Heron

    Number observed:  8

    Details

    Seen all at one time, in Lake Knapp

  17. Black Vulture

    Number observed:  1

  18. Sharp-shinned/Cooper's Hawk

    Number observed:  1

    Details

    very high overhead, glimpsed through pine branches

  19. Bald Eagle

    Number observed:  3

  20. Belted Kingfisher

    Number observed:  1

  21. Red-bellied Woodpecker

    Number observed:  1

  22. Downy Woodpecker

    Number observed:  3

  23. Northern Flicker

    Number observed:  1

  24. American Crow

    Number observed:  1

  25. Carolina Chickadee

    Number observed:  2

  26. Brown-headed Nuthatch

    Number observed:  4

  27. Brown Creeper

    Number observed:  1

  28. Carolina Wren

    Number observed:  3

  29. Northern Mockingbird

    Number observed:  1

  30. Eastern Bluebird

    Number observed:  1

  31. American Robin

    Number observed:  1

  32. Dark-eyed Junco

    Number observed:  8

  33. White-throated Sparrow

    Number observed:  7

  34. Song Sparrow

    Number observed:  5

  35. Yellow-rumped Warbler

    Number observed:  6

  36. Northern Cardinal

    Number observed:  9