Howard County Bird Club

A Chapter of the Maryland Ornithological Society
Rocky Gorge Dam February 21, 2012
Photo by Richard Orr

Rocky Gorge Dam
February 21, 2012
Photo by Richard Orr

Dorsey Hall
May 9, 2020
Annette Allor

Dorsey Hall Shopping Center
May 9, 2020
Photo by Annette Allor

Rocky Gorge Dam February 21, 2012
Photo by Richard Orr

Allopreening
Dorsey Hall Shopping Center
May 9, 2020
Photo by Annette Allor

Common Raven nest

Dorsey Hall Shopping Center
May 2, 2020
Photo by Howard Patterson

Dorsey Hall Shopping Center
April 25, 2020
David Sandler

Feeding young
Dorsey Hall Shopping Center
May 2, 2020
Photo by David Sandler

Juvenile Common Ravens: a  video by John Harris from Dorsey Hall Shopping Center, May 19, 2020

Two juvenile Common Ravens: a video by Annette Allor from Wincopin Trail, May 25, 2023

Patuxent River State Park
June 13, 2014
Photo by Russ Ruffing

Rocky Gorge Dam
May 1, 2013
Photo by Bart Pitts
(WSSC Ranger)*

Two younsters
Mt. Pleasant
June 9, 2016
Photo by Bonnie Ott

Rocky Gorge Dam
February 21, 2012
Photo by Richard Orr

Rocky Gorge Dam February 21, 2012 Photo by Richard Or

Rocky Gorge Dam
February 21, 2012
Photo by Richard Orr

The last two photos show a parent and the nest in the overhanging ledge on the dam. The occupied nest that year was on the Howard County side and was only verified when the female flew in and the male flew off.

Note the frazzled tail on the adult bird in the first photo. It was determined that this was an adult bird which, when it turned around against the rough concrete of the dam face on the ledge where the nest was located, had worn its tail feather to the point they were really bedraggled!

* Sponsored by Jo Solem