Date:         Mon, 29 May 2000 19:15:13 -0700
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From:         Kevin Graff <hawkwatch_21206@YAHOO.COM>
Subject:      Ft. Frederick & Lilypons Fish Hatchery
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Ft. Frederick State Patk and Big Pool area of
Chesapeake & Ohio Canal: Sat & Sun. May 27-28, 2000

  2  Green-backed Heron - Big Pool
 18  Canada Goose - in flight headed NEE
  2  Mallard - Potomac River
  7  Wood Duck - hen and 6 ducklings
  1  Turkey Vulture
  1  Spotted Sandpiper - Potomac River
  1  Rock Dove - flyby
  4  Mourning Dove
  1  Yellow-billed Cuckoo - canal trail, S of Big Pool
  1  Great Horned Owl - flushed at 6:08am
  6  Chimney Swift
  2  Downy Woodpecker
  1  Hairy Woodpecker
  2  Northern Flicker
  1  Pileated Woodpecker
  1  Eastern Phoebe
  5  Northern Rough-winged Swallow
  8  Barn Swallow
  4  Blue Jay
  6  American Crow
  2  Black-capped Chickadee
  1  House Wren
  8  Eastern Bluebird
  2  American Robin
  1  Gray Catbird
  2  Northern Mockingbird
  1  Brown Thrasher
 10  Cedar Waxwing
 20  European Starling
  2  Yellow-throated Vireo
  1  Warbling Vireo
  1  Red-eyed Vireo
  1  Northern Parula
  1  Cape May Warbler - possible just passing through
  1  Black-throated Green Warbler
  1  Cerulean Warbler
  1  Common Yellowthroat
  1  Hooded Warbler - haven't see one for several
years, last time was near Harper Ferry at canal trail
  2  Northern Cardinal
  1  Indigo Bunting
  1  Chipping Sparrow
  2  Red-winged Blackbird
 17  Common Grackle
  1  Brown-headed Cowbird
  2  House Finch
 11  American Goldfinch - scrub at R & R track
     46 species

Lilypons Fish Hatchery (LFH), Lilypons & Oland Roads

  1  Great Blue Heron - LFH
  2  Great Egret
  1  Green-backed Heron
  1  Black-crowned Night Heron
 70  Canada Goose - 1 pair with 8 goslings LFH
  2  Mallard - LFH
  1  Cooper's Hawk - Lilypons Rd.
  1  American Kestrel - LFH
  4  Virginia Rail - one adult with 3 chicks (is there
     one missing or just hiding???)
  1  Killdeer
  1  Spotted Sandpiper
  1  Mourning Dove
  8  Chimney Swift
  1  Belted Kingfisher
  7  Barn Swallow
  1  Willow Flycatcher - Lilypons Rd.
  1  Horned Lark
  6  Purple Martin
  1  Blue Jay
  2  Eastern Bluebird
  1  Loggerhead Shrike - Lilypons Rd., new state and
     county list, had one in Delaware on New Year Day
 54  European Starling
  1  Northern Cardinal
     (no Dickcissel anywhere)
  3  Field Sparrow
  3  Savannah Sparrow
  2  Grasshopper Sparrow
  2  Bobolink
  6  Red-winged Blackbird
  3  Eastern Meadowlark
109  Common Grackle
  1  Brown-headed Cowbird
  1  Baltimore Oriole
  2  House Sparrow
     33 species


     Kevin Graff
     Baltimore, MD
     hawkwatch_21206@yahoo.com

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