Hi all,


  Visited some birder friends Sat who recently moved
from Baltimore to Shepherdstown in W. Virginia last
July and did some birding at Lock 38 before headed to
Martinsburg for one-day reenactment camping. 

720am-920am - 5/7/05
Chesapeake & Ohio National Historical Park & Trail 
"C & O Canal Towpath - Lock 38", Canal Rd.,
Sharpsburg, Washington Co., MD

Observers: 3 

Weather: Fair, 38-52 degree, calm-variable 3 mph

  1  Common Loon
  1  Great Blue Heron
  8  Canada Goose - 6 at old bridges
  3  Wood Duck
  1  Red-tailed Hawk
  1  Wild Turkey - heard
  3  Mourning Dove
  9  Chimney Swift
  3  Red-bellied Woodpecker
  1  Northern Flicker
  1  Pileated Woodpecker - heard
  1  Eastern Wood-Pewee
  5  Acadian Flycatcher
  2  Great-crested Flycatcher
  1  Eastern Kingbird
 10  Warbling Vireo
  2  Red-eyed Vireo - nest building "NB"
  4  Blue Jay
  1  American Crow - W. VA side
  1  Common Raven 
  9  Tree Swallow
 22  Northern Rough-winged Swallow
 11  Barn Swallow
  3  Carolina Chickadee
  3  Tufted Titmouse
  2  White-breasted Nuthatch
  1  Carolina Wren
  1  House Wren
  7  Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
  1  Wood Thrush
  3  American Robin
  4  Gray Catbird
 23  European Starling
  1  Cedar Waxwing
  2  Northern Parula
  1  Yellow Warbler
  7  Yellow-rumped Warbler
  2  Yellow-throated Warbler
  5  Prothonotary Warbler
  1  Louisiana Waterthrush
  1  Eastern Towhee
  2  Song Sparrow
  5  Northern Cardinal
  6  Brown-headed Cowbird - all females
 12  Baltimore Oriole
  5  American Goldfinch
199  46 species

No other wildlife


      Kevin Graff
      Jarrettsville, MD & Ocean City, MD
      










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