Great Egrets -- Wheaton Branch Stormwater Ponds -- 2012-08-20 06:36

I was bemoaning the lack if migrants and drop-off in heron numbers when three Great Egrets dropped in from the north. Ah the magic of migration ;)

Other highlights were TWO beavers and a Spotted Sandpiper.

Why so few migrant passerines here?

chlorophonia
2012-08-20 06:36
Wheaton Branch Stormwater Ponds
Traveling
1.22 km
67 Minutes
Observers: 1
All birds reported? Yes
Comments: Overcast, dull, calm, 68 F. 2 beavers.

10 Canada Goose
4 Wood Duck
18 Mallard
1 Great Blue Heron
3 Great Egret
1 Black-crowned Night-Heron
1 Spotted Sandpiper
5 Mourning Dove
1 Belted Kingfisher
2 Red-bellied Woodpecker
1 Northern Flicker
2 Blue Jay
5 American Crow
1 Fish Crow
1 White-breasted Nuthatch
6 Carolina Wren
6 American Robin
2 Gray Catbird
6 European Starling
2 Song Sparrow
2 Northern Cardinal
15 Common Grackle
1 Brown-headed Cowbird
1 Baltimore Oriole
7 American Goldfinch