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Cylburn Arboretum & Backyard Hawk Watch, 10/03/04

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Kevin Graff

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Maryland Birds & Birding

Date:

Mon, 4 Oct 2004 16:54:15 -0700

Hi all,

Baltimore Bird Club trip

830am-1100am - 10/03/04
Cylburn Arboretum, Greenspring Ave., Cold
Spring-Newtown section of Baltimore, MD

Leader: No designated leader for this Self-Guided
        Walk - fifth of the series weekly birdwalk

Observers: 9

Weather: PC-MS, 56-62 degree, NNE 12 mph- NNE 8 mph


   5  Black Vulture
   2  Turkey Vulture
   3  Canada Goose
   2  Sharp-shinned Hawk
   3  Cooper's Hawk
   5  Broad-winged Hawk
   3  Red-tailed Hawk
   1  American Kestrel
   1  Rock Dove - flyby
   8  Mourning Dove
  62  Chimney Swift
   4  Red-bellied Woodpecker
   1  Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
   1  Downy Woodpecker
   1  Northern Flicker
   3  Eastern Phoebe
   4  White-eyed Vireo - might be more
   1  Red-eyed Vireo
  92  Blue Jay - headed SW
   3  American Crow
   2  Carolina Chickadee
   1  Tufted Titmouse
   1  White-breasted Nuthatch
   1  Carolina Wren
   1  Golden-crowned Kinglet
 115  American Robin
   2  Gray Catbird
   5  Northern Mockingbird
  17  European Starling
   4  Cedar Waxwing
   1  Black-throated Green Warbler
   1  Song Sparrow
   3  White-throated Sparrow
   3  Northern Cardinal
   1  Rose-breasted Grosbeak
  10  Red-winged Blackbird
 373  36 species

 Mammals
    1  Eastern Chipmunk
   19  Eastern Gray Squirrel

 Butterflies
    5  Cabbage White
    2  Clouded Sulfer
    1  Least Skipper
    3  Sachem
    1  Dun Skipper - female

 Dragonflies
    2  Common Green Darner
    3  Wanderling Glider
    1  Blue Dasher?

Went to my old backyard hawkwatch after the trip
because we were seeing hawks coming in from the ENE,
the direction from the hawkwatch to Cylburn.


1130am-400pm - 4.5 hrs.
former "Backyard Hawk Watch" at the east side of
ridge, Fairwood Ave, Hamilton section of Baltimore, MD

  16  Turkey Vulture
   1  Osprey
   2  Northern Harrier
  40  Sharp-shinned Hawk - mostly singles or pairs
  29  Cooper's Hawk - mostly single or pairs
   4  Red-shouldered Hawk
  23  Broad-winged Hawk - two kettles, may be last
   1  American Kestrel
   3  Merlin
 119  9 species

      Kevin Graff
      Jarrettsville, MD & Ocean City, MD
      





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