Birding Howard County, Maryland

Species Lists for Meadowbrook Park

BIRDS

Seasonal List

Seasons: Sp (Spring): March–May; Su (Summer): June–July; F (Fall): August–November; W (Winter): December–February.

Name	Sp	Su	F	W
Snow Goose				x
Canada Goose	x	x	x	x
Wood Duck	x		x
American Black Duck	x		x	x
Mallard	x	x	x	x
Northern Pintail	x
Green-winged Teal	x
Green-winged Teal	x
Hooded Merganser	x
Common Loon	x
Pied-billed Grebe	x		x	x
Double-crested Cormorant	x		x
American Bittern	x		x
Great Blue Heron	x	x	x	x
Great Egret	x	x	x
Little Blue Heron	x
Green Heron	x	x	x
Black-crowned Night-Heron	x
Black Vulture	x	x	x	x
Turkey Vulture	x	x	x	x
Osprey	x		x
Bald Eagle	x		x	x
Northern Harrier	x		x	x
Sharp-shinned Hawk	x		x	x
Cooper's Hawk	x		x	x
Red-shouldered Hawk	x	x	x	x
Broad-winged Hawk	x		x
Red-tailed Hawk	x		x	x
Rough-legged Hawk			x
American Kestrel	x		x	x
Merlin	x		x	x
Peregrine Falcon			x
Sora	x		x
Killdeer	x	x	x
Greater Yellowlegs	x
Solitary Sandpiper	x		x
Spotted Sandpiper	x
Wilson's Snipe	x
Ring-billed Gull	x		x	x
Herring Gull				x
Rock Pigeon	x		x	x
Mourning Dove	x	x	x	x
Yellow-billed Cuckoo			x
Great Horned Owl	x
Barred Owl	x
Common Nighthawk	x
Chimney Swift	x		x
Ruby-throated Hummingbird			x
Belted Kingfisher	x		x	x
Red-headed Woodpecker			x
Red-bellied Woodpecker	x	x	x	x
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker	x		x	x
Downy Woodpecker	x	x	x	x
Northern Flicker	x	x	x	x
Pileated Woodpecker	x		x
Eastern Wood-Pewee	x
Acadian Flycatcher	x
Alder Flycatcher	x
Willow Flycatcher	x	x	x
Eastern Phoebe	x	x	x	x
Great Crested Flycatcher	x
Eastern Kingbird	x	x	x
White-eyed Vireo	x	x	x
Warbling Vireo	x	x
Red-eyed Vireo	x	x	x
Blue Jay	x	x	x	x
American Crow	x	x	x	x
Fish Crow	x	x	x	x
Tree Swallow	x	x	x
Northern Rough-winged Swallow	x	x	x
Barn Swallow	x	x	x
Carolina Chickadee	x	x	x	x
Tufted Titmouse	x	x	x	x
White-breasted Nuthatch	x		x	x
Carolina Wren	x	x	x	x
House Wren	x	x	x
Marsh Wren	x		x

Name	Sp	Su	F	W
Golden-crowned Kinglet				x
Ruby-crowned Kinglet	x		x	x
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher	x
Eastern Bluebird	x	x	x	x
Veery			x
Hermit Thrush			x
Wood Thrush	x
American Robin	x	x	x	x
Gray Catbird	x	x	x
Northern Mockingbird	x	x	x	x
Brown Thrasher	x	x	x
European Starling	x	x	x	x
American Pipit			x
Cedar Waxwing	x	x	x
Tennessee Warbler			x
Orange-crowned Warbler			x
Nashville Warbler			x
Northern Parula	x
Yellow Warbler	x	x
Chestnut-sided Warbler	x		x
Magnolia Warbler			x
Black-throated Blue Warbler	x		x
Yellow-rumped Warbler	x		x
Black-throated Green Warbler	x		x
Palm Warbler	x		x
Blackpoll Warbler	x		x
Black-and-white Warbler	x		x
American Redstart	x
Ovenbird	x
Louisiana Waterthrush	x
Connecticut Warbler			x
Mourning Warbler			x
Common Yellowthroat	x	x	x
Wilson's Warbler	x
Yellow-breasted Chat	x	x	x
Scarlet Tanager	x
Eastern Towhee	x	x	x	x
American Tree Sparrow			x	x
Chipping Sparrow	x		x
Clay-colored Sparrow			x
Field Sparrow	x		x	x
Vesper Sparrow			x
Savannah Sparrow	x		x
Grasshopper Sparrow			x
Fox Sparrow	x		x	x
Song Sparrow	x	x	x	x
Lincoln's Sparrow	x		x
Swamp Sparrow	x		x	x
White-throated Sparrow	x		x	x
White-crowned Sparrow	x		x	x
Dark-eyed Junco	x		x	x
Northern Cardinal	x	x	x	x
Rose-breasted Grosbeak		x	x
Blue Grosbeak	x	x	x
Indigo Bunting	x	x	x
Dickcissel			x
Bobolink	x		x
Red-winged Blackbird	x	x	x	x
Eastern Meadowlark	x		x
Rusty Blackbird	x		x
Common Grackle	x	x	x	x
Brown-headed Cowbird	x	x	x	x
Orchard Oriole	x	x
Baltimore Oriole	x	x
Purple Finch			x
House Finch	x	x	x	x
Pine Siskin			x
American Goldfinch	x	x	x	x
House Sparrow	x	x	x	x

Contributors: HCBC field trips and annual counts, Andy Aguilera, Dianne Aguilera, Sue Buswell, Jane Coskren, Sarel Cousins, Ralph Cullison, Karen Darcy, David Farner, Ralph Geuder, Jane Heim, Hans Holbrook, Emmalyn Holdridge, Kathy Litzinger, Brigitte Lund, Nancy Magnusson, Bonnie Ott, Anita Picco, Robert Ringler, Kurt Schwarz, Jo Solem, Jim Wilkinson.

BUTTERFLIES

Silver-spotted Skipper Wild Indigo Duskywing Common Checkered Skipper Least Skipper Peck's Skipper Little Glassywing Sachem	Zabulon Skipper Eastern Tiger Swallowtail Cabbage White Clouded Sulphur Orange Sulphur Red-banded Hairstreak Eastern Tailed-Blue	Variegated Fritillary Great Spangled Fritillary Pearl Crescent Common Buckeye Red-spotted Purple Viceroy Monarch
Contributors: Dick Smith, Jo Solem, Bob Solem, Karen Darcy.

DRAGONFLIES

Ebony Jewelwing American Rubyspot Southern Spreadwing Slender Spreadwing Eastern Red Damsel Blue-fronted Dancer Violet Dancer Azure Bluet Familiar Bluet Skimming Bluet Orange Bluet Citrine Forktail Fragile Forktail Eastern Forktail	Shadow Darner Common Green Darner Comet Darner Unicorn Clubtail Lancet Clubtail Common Baskettail Calico Pennant Halloween Pennant Common Pondhawk Blue Corporal Spangled Skimmer Slaty Skimmer Widow Skimmer Needham's Skimmer	Twelve-spotted Skimmer Painted Skimmer Great Blue Skimmer Blue Dasher Wandering Glider Spot-winged Glider Eastern Amberwing Common Whitetail Ruby Meadowhawk Band-winged Meadowhawk Autumn Meadowhawk Carolina Saddlebags Black Saddlebags Red Saddlebags
Contributors: Jo Solem, Bob Solem, June Tveekrem, Nancy Magnusson

MAMMALS	AMPHIBIANS	REPTILES
Red Fox Woodchuck Eastern Gray Squirrel Eastern Cottontail Whitetail Deer Contributors: Jo Solem	American Bullfrog American Toad Fowler's Toad Gray Treefrog Green Frog Northern Cricket Frog Pickerel Frog Spring Peeper Contributors: Howard County FrogWatchUSA	Snapping Turtle Painted Turtle Red-eared Slider Eastern Garter Snake Northern Watersnake Contributors: Jo Solem, Bob Solem