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 Gadwall x American Black Duck x x x Mallard x x x x Blue-winged Teal x Northern Shoveler x Northern Pintail 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 x Black Vulture x x x x Turkey Vulture x x x x Osprey x x Mississippi Kite x Bald Eagle x x x Northern Harrier x x x Sharp-shinned Hawk x x x Cooper's Hawk x 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 Sora x x Killdeer x x x Solitary Sandpiper x x Spotted Sandpiper x Greater Yellowlegs 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 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 American Kestrel x x x Merlin x x x Peregrine Falcon 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 x Philadelphia Vireo 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 Red-breasted Nuthatch x

Name Sp Su F W White-breasted Nuthatch x x x House Wren x x x x Marsh Wren x x Carolina Wren x x x x Blue-gray Gnatcatcher x Golden-crowned Kinglet x Ruby-crowned Kinglet x x x Eastern Bluebird x x x x Veery x Swainson's Thrush 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 x Cedar Waxwing x x x x Ovenbird x Louisiana Waterthrush x Black-and-white Warbler x x Tennessee Warbler x Orange-crowned Warbler x Nashville Warbler x Connecticut Warbler x Mourning Warbler x Common Yellowthroat x x x American Redstart x Northern Parula x Magnolia Warbler x Bay-breasted Warbler x Yellow Warbler x x Chestnut-sided Warbler x x Blackpoll Warbler x x Black-throated Blue Warbler x x Palm Warbler x x Yellow-rumped Warbler x x Black-throated Green Warbler x x Wilson's Warbler x Yellow-breasted Chat x x x Eastern Towhee x x x x American Tree Sparrow x x Chipping Sparrow x x x Clay-colored Sparrow x Field Sparrow x x x Vesper Sparrow x Savannah Sparrow x x x Grasshopper Sparrow x x 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 Scarlet Tanager 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 Brewer's Blackbird 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, Joe Hanfman, 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 Fiery Skipper Peck's Skipper Tawny-edged Skipper Little Glassywing Sachem	Zabulon Skipper Ocola Skipper Eastern Tiger Swallowtail Black 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, Richard Orr, Bonnie Ott, Jim Wilkinson.

DRAGONFLIES

Ebony Jewelwing American Rubyspot Southern Spreadwing Slender Spreadwing Eastern Red Damsel Blue-fronted Dancer Violet Dancer Powdered Dancer Azure Bluet Familiar Bluet Skimming Bluet Orange Bluet Citrine Forktail Fragile Forktail Rambur's Forktail Eastern Forktail Shadow Darner Common Green Darner Comet Darner Fawn Darner Unicorn Clubtail	Lancet Clubtail Common Sanddragon 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	Blue-faced Meadowhawk Ruby Meadowhawk Blue-faced Meadowhawk Band-winged Meadowhawk Autumn Meadowhawk Carolina Saddlebags Black Saddlebags Red Saddlebags Blue-faced Meadowhawk Photo by Richard Orr
Contributors: Jo Solem, Bob Solem, June Tveekrem, Nancy Magnusson, Wes Earp, Bonnie Ott.

MAMMALS

Red Fox Woodchuck Eastern Gray Squirrel Eastern Cottontail Whitetail Deer

Contributors: Jo Solem

AMPHIBIANS

Northern Two-lined Salamander American Toad Fowler's Toad Spring Peeper Eastern Cricket Frog Gray Treefrog Pickerel Frog Northern Green Frog American Bullfrog

Contributors: Howard County FrogWatchUSA, Sue Muller (MARA data), Bonnie Ott.

REPTILES

Eastern Box Turtle Eastern Painted Turtle Red-eared Slider Snapping Turtle Northern Watersnake Eastern Gartersnake Eastern Ratsnake

Contributors: Jo Solem, Bob Solem, Michele Wright, Sue Muller (MARA data)

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