Young Birder Walk at Howard County Conservancy
| Trip leaders: Roshan Vignarajah & Vitus Li Recorder: Roshan Vignarajah Photographer: Vitus Li |
Date of trip: March 30, 2025 |
| Location: Howard County Conservancy | Number attending: 14 |
| Details: Weather: Unusually hot, over 70 degrees; cloudy in the morning clearing up to blue skies around 10:30. Wind south. A Palm Warbler and a singing Brown Creeper were the highlights of this trip.
Not a bird: Proof that we are always learning, was this Eastern Chipmunk that was making “knock, knock”-cuckoo-like sounds in the woods versus the shrill chip we often hear. Seen by young birder Jayden Ward, who then researched its calls to solve the mystery of the “phantom cuckoo.” Gregg Petersen |
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eBird link with bird photos |
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Canada Goose 6
Mourning Dove 4
Double-crested Cormorant 11
Black Vulture 2
Turkey Vulture (Northern) 4
Osprey (American) 2
Sharp-shinned Hawk (Northern) 1
Cooper’s Hawk 1
Bald Eagle 3
Red-shouldered Hawk (lineatus Group) 4
Red-tailed Hawk (borealis) 6
Red-bellied Woodpecker 4
Downy Woodpecker (Eastern) 4
Hairy Woodpecker (Eastern) 1
Pileated Woodpecker 2
Northern Flicker (Yellow-shafted) 16
Eastern Phoebe 7
Blue Jay 2
American Crow 20
Fish Crow 40
Common Raven 1
Carolina Chickadee 4
Tufted Titmouse 6
Tree Swallow 10
Ruby-crowned Kinglet 1
Golden-crowned Kinglet 1
White-breasted Nuthatch (Eastern) 1
Brown Creeper (americana/nigrescens) 1
Carolina Wren (Northern) 4
European Starling 4
Northern Mockingbird 8
Eastern Bluebird (Eastern) 6
American Robin (migratorius Group) 10
Cedar Waxwing 3
American Goldfinch 10
Chipping Sparrow 2
Field Sparrow 10
Fox Sparrow (Red) 1
Dark-eyed Junco (Slate-colored) 5
White-throated Sparrow 20
Savannah Sparrow (Savannah) 1
Song Sparrow (melodia/atlantica) 20
Swamp Sparrow 10
Eastern Meadowlark (Eastern) 5
Red-winged Blackbird (Red-winged) 40
Brown-headed Cowbird 12
Common Grackle 6
Palm Warbler (Yellow) 1
Yellow-rumped Warbler (Myrtle) 1
Northern Cardinal (Common) 8