Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2004 04:12:37 -0800 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Kevin Graff Subject: Cylburn Arboretum & SW D.C., 3/21/04 In-Reply-To: <405E47AB.60767677@erols.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Hi all, Baltimore Bird Club trip 8am-11am Cylburn Arboretum, Greenspring Ave., Cold Spring-Newtown section of Baltimore, MD Leader: No designated leader for this Self-Guided Walk - first of the series weekly birdwalk Observers: 10 Weather: PS/PC, 49-47 degree, W 29 mph-W 23 mph 7 Turkey Vulture 4 Mallard 1 Red-shouldered Hawk 1 Red-tailed Hawk 5 Ring-billed Gull 4 Rock Pigeon 25 Mourning Dove 1 Red-bellied Woodpecker 1 Yellow-bellied Sapsucker 1 Downy Woodpecker 1 Hairy Woodpecker 3 Northern Flicker 3 Blue Jay 2 American Crow 5 Carolina Chickadee 2 White-breasted Nuthatch 2 Carolina Wren 1 Golden-crowned Kinglet 51 American Robin 3 Morthern Mockingbird 24 European Starling 2 Fox Sparrow 7 Song Sparrow 2 White-throated Sparrow 6 "Slate-colored" Junco 7 Northern Cardinal 1 Eastern Meadowlark 5 House Finch 2 American Goldfinch 2 House Sparrow 181 30 species Mammals 4 Gray Squirrel Amphibians 2 Spring Peeper - heard calling Butterflies 1 Mourning Cloak After Cylburn, I left on my own to SW D.C. in hope to find the pelican for D.C. list. None around, too windy, choppy waves up to 1'. Many gulls and Mallard and geese lay low across golf course. 1215pm-215pm East Potomac Park & West Potomac Park below Independence Ave and around Tidal Basin, Ohio Dr., SW Washington, D.C. Weather: PC, 48-46 degree, NW 14 mph- NW 21 mph, the wind was more like 30 mph when I was there, increasing cloudy 7 Horned Grebe 1 RED-NECKED GREBE - off Hains Point near airport 22 Double-crested Cormorant 2 Turkey Vulture 70 Canada Goose 26 Mallard 2 Lesser Scaup 3 Long-tailed Duck - Potomac R. 8 Bufflehead 6 Common Merganser 16 Red-breasted Merganser 1 Osprey 1 Peregrine Falcon 9 American Coot 321 Ring-billed Gull 100 Herring Gull - actual # 66 Great Black-backed Gull 1 Lesser Black-backed Gull - ad 11 Rock Pigeon 4 Mourning Dove 1 Downy Woodpecker 1 Blue Jay 4 American Crow 1 Fish Crow 11 American Robin 1 Northern Mockingbird 1 Brown Thrasher - scrub/woods 270 European Starling - actual # 1 American Pipit - Hains Point 8 Song Sparrow 1 Swamp Sparrow - w/ thrasher and other sparrows 15 "Slate-colored" Junco 1 Northern Cardinal 4 Common Grackle 5 House Sparrow 1002 35 species Mammals 1 Gray Squirrel Kevin Graff Jarrettsville & Ocean City, MD ocean_city2001@yahoo.com __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Finance Tax Center - File online. File on time. http://taxes.yahoo.com/filing.html ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================