Blackwater National Wildlife Refuge

Today we took a little birding trip to Blackwater National Wildlife Refuge South of Cambridge on the Eastern Shore of Maryland. Blackwater is home to both Winter migrant and year round resident populations of Bald Eagles. They are the stars of a show that never fails to deliver a good birding trip. We saw a lot of eagles.

Of course we went to look for more than just them. Here is a list of what we saw. We saw more than one of nearly all of these birds, but I'm only going to list the species, not the quantities.

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Starling (of course)	Bald Eagle
Blue Heron	Canadian Geese (1000s)
Crow	Robin
Red Tail Hawk	Ring Billed Gull
Herring Gull	Cardinal
Blue Jay	Tern (not sure what kind)
White Throated Sparrow	Mallard
Ring Necked Duck	Pintail Duck
Northern Shoveller	White Breasted Nuthatch
Brown Headed Nuthatch	Blue Bird
Downey Woodpecker	Red Bellied Woodpecker
Chickadee	Tufted Titmouse
Mocking Bird	Harrier
Pileated Woodpecker	Mourning Dove
Turkey Vulture	Tundra Swan