Hi all,
Baltimore Bird Club weekly evening trip, 5/05/04
Next evening birdwalk on May 12th at 6pm
6pm-8pm - fifth of series evening weekly birdwalk
Ft. McHenry National Monument, Constellation Plaza,
at end of Fort Ave, Locust Point section of
Baltimore, MD
Leader: Jim Peters
Observer: Keith Eric Costley, Kevin Graff
Weather: PS, then increasing cloudy, 69-64 degree,
WSW 13 mph- calm
46 Double-crested Cormorant
3 Great Blue Heron - flyby
1 Great Egret - flyby
2 Green Heron
72 Canada Goose
10 Mallard
4 Osprey
3 Killdeer
9 Spotted Sandpiper
1 Semipalmated Sandpiper
3 Least Sandpiper
878 Ring-billed Gull
156 Herring Gull
51 Great Black-backed Gull
1 Forster's Tern
7 Rock Pigeon
13 Mourning Dove
1 Common Nighthawk (flyby at 759pm, they're back)
8 Chimney Swift
2 Ruby-throated Hummingbird
2 Eastern Kingbird
10 Fish Crow
4 Purple Martin
16 Tree Swallow
8 Northern Rough-winged Swallow
35 Barn Swallow
1 Carolina Wren
1 House Wren
1 Hermit Thrush
1 Wood Thrush
23 American Robin
38 Gray Catbird
2 Northern Mockingbird - 2nd outside fort
63 European Starling
2 Yellow Warbler
3 Black-throated Blue Warbler
1 Black-and-white Warbler
1 American Redstart
8 Common Yellowthroat
1 Field Sparrow
5 Savannah Sparrow
1 Seaside Sparrow
2 Song Sparrow
6 Swamp Sparrow
19 White-throated Sparrow
no cardinals ????????
9 Red-winged Blackbird
51 Common Grackle
4 Brown-headed Cowbird
3 Orchard Oriole
3 House Finch
12 American Goldfinch
5 House Sparrow
1612 52 species
Mammals
2 Eastern Gray Squirrel
4 Red Fox (kits, no mother around, still closeby)
Butterflies
1 Cabbage White
Not a good day for me to scope out Fort carroll due to
heavy clouds cover. But we did have a good birdy day.
Scads of catbirds.
The Blackwater NWR report will be finish by tonight as
I'm still working on dragonflies id's. Many are new to
me for this refuge.
Kevin Graff
Jarrettsville & Ocean City, MD
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