Baltimore Harbor

Geoff Graff (ggraff@erols.com)
Sat, 06 Mar 1999 23:08:35 -0500


Went to the BBC Bird Walk with four other birders to Harbor Hospital 
Center, Cherry Hill Park and Southwest Area Park today.


Birds seen:

Harbor Hospital Center

 2  Double-crested Cormorant 
 6  Mallard
11  Lesser Scaup
33  Bufflehead
 6  Red-breasted Merganser
23  Ring-billed Gull
11  Herring Gull
 6  Great Black-backed Gull
28  Rock Dove
 7  Am. Crow
 2  crow sp. (possible Fish Crow)
16  European Starling

Middle Branch Park

 2  Mallard
 2  Herring Gull
 1  Belted Kingfisher
 2  Red-winged Blackbird

Cherry Hill Park

36  Canada Geese (8 flocks of 377 headed north)
 8  Mallard
13  Dunlin
 2  Common Snipe
11  Kildeer
 1  Ring-necked Pheasant (our leader of the trip saw other one)
 2  Red-tailed Hawk
 2  Mourning Dove
 8  Rock Dove
29  Am. Crow
 1  Blue Jay
 4  Eastern Meadowlark (5 seen by others)
 9  European Starling
 2  N. Mockingbird
 4  Am. Robin
18  Red-winged Blackbird
 6  Song Sparrow
15  "Slate-colored" Junco
 5  White-throated Sparrow
 1  Savannah Sparrow (possible more)
 1  Am. Tree Sparrow

Southwest Area Park
 3  Canada Goose
17  Mallard
 1  Killdeer
36  Ring-billed Gull
 1  Red-tailed Hawk
10  Am. Crow 
 2  Downy Woodpecker
 2  Carolina Wren
 1  N. Mockingbird
 4  Am. Robin
 4  N. Cardinal
 4  Song Sparrow
 1  White-throated Sparrow
20  "Slate-colored" Junco



            Kevin Graff
            Baltimore, MD
            ggraff@erols.com