Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2001 18:26:16 -0700 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Kevin Graff Subject: Ft McHenry National Monument 8/29/01 In-Reply-To: <01ec01c130b7$ba1e9780$9438b518@mtgmry1.md.home.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Hi all, This evening at 6pm, Jim Peters led the first of the evening weekly series birdwalk today at Ft McHenry. 6 observers saw or heard about 34 species mostly at the nature trail. We all like to say thank you to Jim for leading this birdwalk and we all had a good time there. Also thanks to Keith Eric Costley with his sharp ear for birds calling. 9 Double-crested Cormorant 2 Great Blue Heron 1 Black-crowned Night Heron 48 Canada Goose 4 Mallard 1 Spotted Sandpiper 22 Laughing Gull 57 Ring-billed Gull 63 Herring Gull 32 Great Black-backed Gull 3 Forster's Tern 38 Rock Dove 8 Mourning Dove 4 Common Nighthawk (all seen at 7:47pm) 1 Chimney Swift (possible 2) 3 Belted Kingfisher 1 Eastern Kingbird 1 Great-crested Flycatcher (heard by Keith) 1 Willow Flycatcher (possible 2, #2 near gate) 3 American Crow 2 House Wren 1 Ruby-crowned Kinglet 1 Swainson's Thrush 15 American Robin 6 Northern Mockingbird 63 European Starling 1 Magnolia Warbler 3 Canada Warbler 12 Red-winged Blackbird 4 Common Grackle 5 Brown-headed Cowbird 2 House Finch 1 American Goldfinch 31 House Sparrow 34 species There may be more species as we all miss a lot of flybys that flew over too quick and didn't give us a chance to id's it. Possible Common Yellowthroat and Song or Swamp Sparrow, but it is not clear in the distance. Kevin Graff Baltimore, MD hawkwatch_21206@yahoo.com __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get email alerts & NEW webcam video instant messaging with Yahoo! Messenger http://im.yahoo.com ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================