The Loch Raven Reservoir BBC walk on Tuesday yielded 14 Chipping Sparrows
(the first of the Fall), and an unusually high number of Downy Woodpeckers
(15).

The complete list of 33 species seen is as follows:

  
 Pied-billed Grebe  8
 Horned Grebe  2   
 Great Blue Heron  1
 Canada Goose  500 
 American Wigeon  50
 American Black Duck  4
 Ring-necked Duck  25
 Bufflehead  15   
 Hooded Merganser  2
 American Coot  200
 Ring-billed Gull  5
 Herring Gull  2   
 Red-bellied Woodpecker  8
 Downy Woodpecker  15
 Northern Flicker  3
 Pileated Woodpecker  1
 American Crow  5  
 Fish Crow  1   
 Carolina Chickadee  20
 Tufted Titmouse  15
 White-breasted Nuthatch  5
 Carolina Wren  6  
 Golden-crowned Kinglet  1
 Eastern Bluebird  5
 Northern Mockingbird  2
 Eastern Towhee  2 
 Chipping Sparrow  14
 Clay-colored Sparrow  3
 Fox Sparrow  2   
 Song Sparrow  6   
 White-throated Sparrow  50
 Dark-eyed Junco  20
 Northern Cardinal  10

Elliot Kirschbaum
Baltimore, MD