Trees & Wildlife at the Howard County Conservancy’s Mt. Pleasant Farm
Birds at Mt. Pleasant
These birds have been sighted at Mt. Pleasant Farm by the Howard County Bird Club - View their Site Guide
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Common Loon
Great Blue Heron Green Heron Black Vulture Turkey Vulture Canada Goose Mallard Osprey Northern Harrier Sharp-shinned Hawk Cooper’s Hawk Red-shouldered Hawk Broad-winged Hawk Red-tailed Hawk American Kestrel Merlin Wild Turkey Killdeer Upland Sandpiper Common Snipe Ring-billed Gull Herring Gull Caspian Tern Rock Dove Mourning Dove Barred Owl Chimney Swift Ruby-throated Hummingbird House Sparrow |
Belted Kingfisher
Red-headed Woodpecker Red-bellied Woodpecker Yellow-bellied Woodpecker Downy Woodpecker Hairy Woodpecker Northern Flicker Pileated Woodpecker Eastern Wood-Pewee Willow Flycatcher Eastern Phoebe Great Crested Flycatcher Eastern Kingbird White-eyed Vireo Yellow-throated Vireo Red-eyed Vireo Blue Jay American Crow Fish Crow Purple Martin Tree Swallow Barn Swallow Carolina Chickadee Tufted Titmouse Red-breasted Nuthatch White-breasted Nuthatch Brown Creeper Carolina Wren House Wren |
Winter Wren
Golden-crowned Kinglet Ruby-crowned Kinglet Blue-gray Gnatcatcher Eastern Bluebird Hermit Thrush American Robin Gray Catbird Northern Mockingbird Brown Thrasher European Starling American Pipit Cedar Waxwing Blue-winged Warbler Nashville Warbler Northern Parula Yellow Warbler Magnolia Warbler Black-throated Blue Warbler Yellow-rumped Warbler Black-throated Green warbler Prairie Warbler Palm Warbler Black-and-white Warbler American Redstart Northern Waterthrush Common Yellowthroat Yellow-breasted Chat Scarlet Tanager |
Eastern Towhee
Chipping Sparrow Clay-colored Sparrow Field Sparrow Vesper Sparrow Savannah Sparrow Grasshopper Sparrow Fox Sparrow Song Sparrow Lincoln’s Sparrow Swamp Sparrow White-throated Sparrow White-crowned Sparrow Dark-eyed Junco Northern Cardinal Rose-breasted Grosbeak Blue Grosbeak Indigo Bunting Bobolink Red-winged Blackbird Eastern Meadowlark Common Grackle Brown-headed Cowbird Orchard Oriole Baltimore Oriole Purple Finch House Finch American Goldfinch |
Mammals at Mt. Pleasant
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These mammals have been sighted at Mt. Pleasant Farm.
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Habitat exists on Mt. Pleasant Farm that would support these mammals, although they have not been sighted. Opossum Eastern Coyote Long-tailed Weasel Beaver Northern Flying Squirrel Various moles and shrews |
Fish at Mt. Pleasant
| Blacknose Dace
Longnose Dace Rosyside Dace Creek Chub White Sucker Mottled Sculpin |
Reptiles and Amphibians at Mt. Pleasant
| These have been sighted at Mt. Pleasant Farm Black Rat Snack Garter Snake Ring Neck Snake Hognose Snake Dusky Salamander Northern Red Salamander Wood Frog Eastern Box Turtle |
Habitat exists on Mt. Pleasant Farm that would support these reptiles and amphibians, although they have not been sighted. Copperhead |
Trees at Mt. Pleasant
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American Beech
American Elm Black Gum Black Locust Black Walnut Black Willow Eastern White Pine Flowering Dogwood Hawthorn Hickory Mimosa Mockernut Hickory Northern White Cedar, or Arborvitae |
Red Bud
Red Maple Red Mulberry Red Oak Sassafrass Silver Maple Slippery/Red Elm Staghorn Sumac Spicebush Tree of Heaven Tulip Tree White Oak |
Woody Plants at Mt. Pleasant
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Climbing Bittersweet
Highbush Blackberry Virginia Creeper Riverbank/Frost Grape Summer/Pigeon Grape Japanese Honeysuckle |
Poison Ivy
Wild Black Raspberry Multiflora Rose Virginia’s Bower Wineberry |
Wildflowers at Mt. Pleasant
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Agrimony, Small-flowered
Aster, Heath Aster, Purple-stemmed Avens, White Beggar-ticks, Swamp Bindweed, Hedge Black-eyed Susan Bloodroot Blue Curls Boneset Buckwheat, Climbing False Burdock, Common Buttercup, Bulbous Buttercup, Kidneyleaf Campion, White Chickweed, Common Chickweed, Star Chicory Clearweed Cleavers Clover, Rabbit-foot Clover, Red Clover, White Clover, Black |
Coneflower, Green headed/Tall
Cress, Mouse-ear Cress, Winter Daisy, Oxeye Dayflower, Asiatic Dock, Bitter/Broad Dodder, Common Evening-primrose, Common Everlasting, Sweet Fleabane, Daisy Galinsoga Garlic, Field Gill-over-the-ground Goldenrod, Canada Goldenrod, Rough-stemmed Ground Cherry, Smooth Heal-all Horse-nettle Horseweed Indian Hemp Indian Tobacco Jack-in-the-pulpit Jimsonweed Joe-Pye Weed, Hollow |
Knapweed, Brown
Knapweed, Spotted Knotweed, Virginia Lady’s Thumb Lamb’s Quarter Lobelia, Great May-apple Mercury, Three-seeded Milkweed, Common Milkweed, Swamp Mugwort, Common Mullein, Moth Mustard, Garlic Nightshade, Bittersweet Nightshade, Black/Common Pennycress, Field Peppergrass, Field Peppergrass, Wild Peppermint Perilla Plantain, Broadleaved/Common Plantain, English Pokeweed Queen Anne’s Lace |
Ragweed, Common
Ragweed, Great Rue-anemone Skunk Cabbage Snakeroot, Clustered Solomon’s Seal, False Spring Beauty Spurge, Flowering Strawberry, Indian Tearthumb, Arrow-leaved Tearthumb, Halbard-leaved Tearthumb, Perfoliata Thistle, Bull Thistle, Canada Tich-trefoil, Hoary Toothwort, Slender Touch-me-not, Spotted Trout Lily Velvetleaf Vervain, White Violet, Pale Water-pepper, Mild Wood-sorrel, Yellow Yarrow |
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The Howard County Conservancy 10520 Old Frederick Road/PO Box 175, Woodstock, Maryland 21163-0175 Directions Phone: 410 - 465- 8877 Nature Center Hours: Wed. through Sat. 9am - 3pm Closed Saturdays during the Winter |