Date: Wed, 15 May 2002 10:10:38 -0700 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Kevin Graff Subject: May Count: Cromwell Valley Park In-Reply-To: <000d01c1fbdf$936a98c0$fd7d4e0c@Norm1> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii International Migratory Bird Day "May Count" 5/11/02 Location: 1. Cromwell Valley Park on Cromwell Bridge Rd. 2. below lower dam along Loch Raven Dr. 3. Gunpowder Falls along Cromwell Bridge Rd. 4. " " bridge at Glen Arm/Cromwell Bridge Hours: 0730am-1130am Observers: Kevin Graff, Carol Schester, Marion Wilson, Johanna Ferguson Good days for birds, not for warblers. No Cliff Swallows under Loch Raven Dr. bridge this year. First time at May Count since 1995 that I have fewer warbler species. 1 Great Blue Heron 32 Canada Goose (one family with 4 goslings) 5 Mallard 2 Black Vulture 6 Turkey Vulture 1 Bald Eagle 1 Sharp-shinned Hawk 2 Cooper's Hawk 4 Red-tailed Hawk 1 Solitary Sandpiper 2 Spotted Sandpiper 20 Ring-billed Gull 2 Rock Dove 17 Mourning Dove 1 Yellow-billed Cuckoo 5 Chimney Swift 1 Ruby-throated Hummingbird 1 Red-bellied Woodpecker 2 Northern Flicker 1 Pileated Woodpecker 2 Eastern Wood-Pewee 2 Eastern Phoebe 8 Eastern Kingbird 23 Tree Swallow 2 N. Rough-winged Swallow 2 Bank Swallow (at Gunpowder Falls bridge) 30 Barn Swallow 3 Blue Jay 33 American Crow 1 Fish Crow 4 Carolina Chickadee 1 Tufted Titmouse 3 Carolina Wren 18 Blue-gray Gnatcatcher 12 Eastern Bluebird 19 American Robin 5 Gray Catbird 10 Northern Mockingbird 1 Brown Thrasher 27 European Starling 12 Cedar Waxwing 2 White-eyed Vireo 2 Warbling Vireo 7 Yellow Warbler 2 Yellow-rumped Warbler 1 Black-throated Green Warbler (Gunp. Falls bridge) 3 Common Yellowthroat 2 Canada Warbler 6 Northern Cardinal 1 Scarlet Tanager 2 Eastern Towhee 13 Chipping Sparrow 3 Song Sparrow 25 Red-winged Blackbird 11 Eastern Meadowlark 35 Common Grackle (flyby) 2 Brown-headed Cowbird 9 Orchard Oriole 21 Baltimore Oriole 7 House Finch 21 American Goldfinch 8 House Sparrow 508 62 species To Steve Sanford, I will mail the May count form to you this week. Also went to to the Baltimore Zoo on May 14th. 52 species with 10 species of warblers (N. Parula, Magnolia warbler, Black-throated Blue Warbler, Yellow-rumped Warbler, Blackburnian Warbler, Blackpoll Warbler, C. Yellowthroat, Canada Warbler, Black-and-white Warbler and Ovenbird). 4 Baltimore Orioles seen at the Waterfowl Lake, numberous swifts at nest or migrants (22 at zoo, 41 at lake - possible roost at old hollow tree at west end of the Druid Hill Lake, and 52 coming in and out of old tree near walking pathway overpass on I-83 N before the exit for Falls Rd. Kevin Graff Jarrettsville, MD ocean_city2001@yahoo.com __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? LAUNCH - Your Yahoo! Music Experience http://launch.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 ======================================================================= =========================================================================