Hi all,
Sorry for a delay. Was out on couple of medic calls
until about 1015pm.
630am-730am - 5/15/05
"Baltimore Bird Club Carpool Headquarters"
Hammonds Ferry Park n' Ride/Patapsco Valley State
Park, Hammonds Ferry Rd., Patapsco, Anne Arundel
County, MD - cancel trip because no one shows up,
went on my own
Weather: MC, 64-66 degree, W 8 mph
1 Double-crested Cormorant - flyby
2 Canada Goose - 695 ramp, view from park-ride
2 Wood Duck
2 Ring-billed Gull - flyby W
3 Rock Pigeon
1 Mourning Dove
5 Chimney Swift
2 Ruby-throated Hummingbird - chasing one another
1 Northern Flicker
1 Eastern Phoebe
11 Blue Jay - headed NE
2 Barn Swallow
1 Gray Catbird
1 Northern Mockingbird
3 European Starling
31 Cedar Waxwing - single flock headed NNW
1 Blue-winged Warbler
1 Yellow Warbler
1 Blackpoll Warbler
1 Common Yellowthroat
2 Northern Cardinal
5 Red-winged Blackbird
8 Common Grackle
2 Brown-headed Cowbird
4 House Sparrow
94 25 species
Mammals
1 Gray Squirrel
830am-12pm
Chesapeake Bay Environmental Center "Horsehead
Wetlands Center" Discovery Ln., off Perrys Corner Rd.,
Grasonville, Queen Anne's Co., MD
Observers: Danny Poet, Kevin Graff
Weather: Cloudy/PC, 67-68 degree, NW 8 mph- NW 7 mph
1 Common Loon
13 Double-crested Cormorant
3 Great Blue Heron
3 Great Egret
1 Snowy Egret
2 Green Heron
1 Black Vulture
1 Turkey Vulture
1 Snow Goose - off Marshy Creek, private lawn
58 Canada Goose
50 Mute Swan - all adults
6 Wood Duck - hen w/ 5 youngs
4 American Black Duck
48 Mallard
1 Ring-necked Duck - drake, Marshy Creek landing
2 Greater Scaup - a pair at Prospect Bay
10 Lesser Scaup - 1 drake Prospect, rest at Marshy
2 Red-breasted Merganser- both hens, Marshy Creek
33 Ruddy Duck
9 Osprey
1 Bald Eagle - adult
1 Virginia Rail
1 Black-bellied Plover
111 Semipalmated Plover
4 Killdeer
4 Lesser Yellowlegs
1 Spotted Sandpiper
1 Western Sandpiper
216 Least Sandpiper
3 Dunlin
1 Laughing Gull
12 Herring Gull
10 Great Black-backed Gull
6 Common Tern
1 Forster's Tern
13 Least Tern
6 Mourning Dove
1 Yellow-billed Cuckoo
2 Ruby-throated Hummingbird
1 Red-bellied Woodpecker
1 Downy Woodpecker
2 Northern Flicker
1 Eastern Phoebe
3 Eastern Kingbird
5 American Crow
2 Fish Crow
51 Tree Swallow
9 Northern Rough-winged Swallow
14 Barn Swallow
3 Carolina Chickadee
1 Carolina Wren
3 House Wren
1 Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
20 American Robin
19 Gray Catbird
3 Northern Mockingbird
32 European Starling
1 Yellow-rumped Warbler
3 Pine Warbler
1 Blackpoll Warbler
8 Common Yellowthroat
1 Eastern Towhee
1 Chipping Sparrow
1 Field Sparrow
1 Seaside Sparrow
2 Swamp Sparrow
16 Northern Cardinal
1 Rose-breasted Grosbeak
63 Red-winged Blackbird
52 Common Grackle
5 Brown-headed Cowbird
1 Baltimore Oriole - male
5 House Finch
9 American Goldfinch
986 74 species
Mammals
7 Eastern Cottontail
6 Gray Squirrel
Reptiles
2 Northern Water Snake
1 unknown snake - hiding in marsh
Amphibians
1 Bullfrog
Butterflies
1 American Lady
1 Painted Lady
1 Pearl Crescent
Dragonflies - very low this time of year
13 Seaside Dragonlet
20 Eastern Pondhawk
marine creatures
19 Striped Killifish
44 Marsh Killifish
67 Mummichog
5000+ unidentified tiny minnows
Kevin Graff
Jarrettsville, MD & Ocean City, MD
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