Date: 04/16/2004 ....    Place:  Loch Raven / Peper Mill Road
Time: 8 am - 1 pm ....Total Species: 59 ....Total Birds seen:  305

highlights: beautiful day!! still a few ducks around. Great views of 2 female mergansers. American bittern !!
first catbird of the year

1 ..... Common Loon
1 ..... Pied-billed Grebe
3 ..... Horned Grebe
7 ..... Double-crested Cormorant
1 ..... AMERICAN BITTERN
3 ..... Great Blue Heron
12 ..... Canada Goose
5 ..... Wood Duck
2 ..... Green-winged Teal
7 ..... Mallard
28 ..... Gadwall
22 ..... Ring-necked Duck
1 ..... Hooded Merganser
3 ..... Red-breasted Merganser
9 ..... Turkey Vulture
1 ..... Sharp-shinned Hawk
2 ..... Red-tailed Hawk
5 ..... Bonaparte's Gull
2 ..... Ring-billed Gull
3 ..... Mourning Dove
3 ..... Belted Kingfisher
1 ..... Red-bellied Woodpecker
4 ..... Downy Woodpecker
1 ..... N. Flicker
4 ..... Eastern Phoebe
1 ..... Tree Swallow
2 ..... Barn Swallow
2 ..... Rough-winged Swallow
2 ..... Blue Jay 
4 ..... American Crow
3 ..... Fish Crow
7 ..... Carolina Chickadee
4 ..... Tufted Titmouse
4 ..... Red-breasted Nuthatch
3 ..... White-breasted Nuthatch
2 ..... Carolina Wren
3 ..... Ruby-crowned Kinglet 
1 ..... Eastern Bluebird
1 ..... Hermit Thrush
1 ..... American Robin
1 ..... Gray Catbird
1 ..... Brown thrasher
3 ..... Starling
2 ..... Yellow-rumped Warbler
1 ..... Pine Warbler
1 ..... Palm Warbler
7 ..... Northern Cardinal
15 ..... Eastern Towhee
9 ..... Chipping Sparrow
6 ..... Field Sparrow
6 ..... Song Sparrow
1 ..... Swamp Sparrow
33 ..... White-throated Sparrow
17 ..... Dark-eyed Junco
1 ..... Red-winged Blackbird
1 ..... Common Grackle
3 ..... Brown-headed Cowbird
23 ..... American Goldfinch
3 ..... House Sparrow
 
Taylor McLean  ..... Towson, MD .... 

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