Visit to Chesapeake Bay Environmental Center, Garsonville, Md

On Friday, March 4, two of us left Cornwall at 9am to travel to Blackwater NWR for a scheduled birding trip on Saturday, March 5 with PSO. http://www.pabirds.org/Index.html

We planned to bird on the way down and decided to check out the CBEC....it was a rather cold, windy day when we arrived and met up up with two follow birders to walk around  and check out the area.

We did not see the thousand's of waterfowl species that have been reported recently..mostly due to a clipper snow storm that moved thru the area the night before.


However, we where not entirely disappointed (it's always good to be out birding)  and we did end the 2 1/2 hour chilly visit with 37 species including: Canvasback, Towhee, Brown-headed Nuthatch, Fox Sparrow and Yellow Rumped Warblers.

Canvasbacks in flight over bay and small lake area.

Hundreds of Greater/Lesser Scaup in flight

 Fox Sparrow

All in all, it was a nice visit and everyone in the group had a least one FOY (1st of year species)  for the visit.

I am planning to add this area to the QAS field trip list for 2016/17 and plan on returning before that for the kayak tour they offer in the summer months,

Now on the Blackwater NWR, located near Cambridge, Maryland....that report will be entered in the next few days.


Not all that wander are lost.