Date: Mon, 3 Sep 2001 18:07:12 -0700 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Kevin Graff Subject: Cromwell Valley Park 9/3/01 In-Reply-To: <8d.bfde878.28c56eab@aol.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Hi all, Since there is no field trip today, so one of our member of BBC decide to have a impromptu field trip to Cromwell Valley Park. 11 observers led by Steve Sanford saw or heard about 61 species. Slow day for warblers, but we have a good time. Our youngest birder, younger than me had learned a lot of good birds and butterflies today with tips from several experience birders and she enjoys this trip. A lot of hawks, about half are migrating. Keith Eric Costley, Steve Sanford, Pete Webb and myself did the armchair hawkwatching after the birdwalk, and saw about 20 hawks headed S or SW. 1 Great Blue Heron 10 Canada Goose 1 Laughing Gull 3 Black Vulture 10 Turkey Vulture 2 Bald Eagle (both imm.?) 2 Sharp-shinned Hawk 8 Cooper's Hawk 2 Red-shouldered Hawk 4 Red-tailed Hawk 4 Osprey 2 American Kestrel 5 Rock Dove 48 Mourning Dove (highest count since 2 years ago??) 1 Yellow-billed Cuckoo 1 Common Nighthawk 13 Chimney Swift 4 Ruby-throated Hummingbird 1 Red-bellied Woodpecker 3 Northern Flicker 1 Downy Woodpecker 1 Hairy Woodpecker 2 Eastern Kingbird 1 Eastern Wood-Pewee 2 Eastern Phoebe 1 Least Flycatcher 1 Acadian Flycatcher 2 Willow Flycatcher 2 traill's Flycatcher (flyby at 730am) 10 Tree Swallow 1 Northern Rough-winged Swallow 22 Barn Swallow 1 Blue Jay 59 American Crow 6 Carolina Chickadee 1 Red-breasted Nuthatch 1 House Wren 2 Blue-gray Gnatcatcher 5 Eastern Bluebird 8 American Robin 7 Gray Catbird 11 Northern Mockingbird 1? Cedar Waxwing 20 European Starling 2 White-eyed Vireo 1 Red-eyed Vireo 2 Warbling Vireo 3 Chestnut-sided Warbler 1 Magnolia Warbler 8 Yellow Warbler 2 Common Yellowthroat 1 American Redstart 6 Northern Cardinal 1 Blue Grosbeak 1 Indigo Bunting 3 Song Sparrow 2 Chipping Sparrow 18 Red-winged Blackbird 65 Common Grackle (some flyby, one flock of 55) 16 House Finch 19 American Goldfinch 2 House Sparrow 61 species Mammal 28 Gray Squirrel Butterflies 7 Eastern Tiger Swallowtail (2 females) 2 Spicebush Swallowtail 13 Cabbage White 4 Clouded Sulfer 3 Spring Azure 1 Pearl Crescent 8 Monarch 5 Horace's Duskywing 4 Sachem 6 Least Skipper 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 ======================================================================= =========================================================================