Date: 04/08/2004 ..Place: Loch Raven: #1 bridge, white pines; boat launch; P. Ridge  
Time: 9-12 am ....Total Species: 46 ....Total Birds seen:  341 +

highlights: 22 common loons, 4 species of warblers, 1 blue-gray gnatcatcher, 6 red-breasted nuthatches

22 ...... Common Loon
8 ..... Pied-billed Grebe
4 ..... Horned Grebe ..... - 2 in beautiful breeding plumage 
11 ...... Double-crested Cormorant
3 ..... Great Blue Heron
x ..... Canada Goose
2 ..... Wood Duck
17 ..... Mallard
3 ..... Ring-necked Duck ..... - 2 females
3 ..... Bufflehead     ...... - 2 females
6 ..... Common Merganser    ...... -  5 females
1 ..... Red-breasted Merganser ....- ist year male?
130 .... American Coot     ..... - one large group
8 ..... Ring-billed Gull
x ..... Rock Dove
6 ..... Mourning Dove
4 ..... Downy Woodpecker
3 ..... N. Flicker
1 ..... Pileated Woodpecker
1 ..... Eastern Phoebe
7 ..... Blue Jay 
4 ..... American Crow
2 ..... Fish Crow
8 ..... Carolina Chickadee
5 ..... Tufted Titmouse
7 ..... Red-breasted Nuthatch ....... - 3 different places
3 ..... White-breasted Nuthatch
1 ..... Brown Creeper
2 ..... Carolina Wren
4 ..... Ruby-crowned Kinglet 
1  ................Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
6 ..... Eastern Bluebird
x ..... American Robin
2 ..... N. Mockingbird
18 ..... Yellow-rumped Warbler
4 ..... Pine Warbler     .... - 3 places
5 ..... Palm Warbler   ..... - 3 places
1 ..... Louisiana Warbler .....- #1 bridge: es road, stream nearest gate
4 ..... Northern Cardinal
3 ..... Chipping Sparrow
3 ..... Song Sparrow
9 ..... Dark-eyed Junco
x ..... Red-winged Blackbird
9 ..... Brown-headed Cowbird
lots .... American Goldfinch
x ..... House Sparrow
 
Taylor McLean  ..... Towson, MD - Baltimore County .... 

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