Hi all,


   Joined Bob Ringler from 8am to 1130am on his BBS
atlas blocks in northern Carroll Co yesterday. Many
roadsides area was very slow for birds with an average
of 6 species in each area. Had finished up some
confirmed species.   The best place we had so far was 
a wetlands area behind a middle school.  


1025am- 1050am - 8/14/05
"Wetlands Restoration Area & Reforestation Project"
behind New Windsor Middle School, Green Valley Rd (Rt
75), New Windsor, Carroll Co., MD

Weather: Haze, 90-91 degree, W 12 mph- W 9 mph 
 
    2  Great Blue Heron
    3  Great Egret
    1  Green Heron
    2  Black Vulture
    6  Turkey Vulture
    1  Mallard 
    1  American Kestrel
   43  Killdeer
    1  Greater Yellowlegs
    1  Lesser Yellowlegs
    7  Solitary Sandpiper
    1  Semipalmated Sandpiper
    3  Least Sandpiper
    1  Pectoral Sandpiper
    1  Mourning Dove
    4  Chimney Swift
    1  Fish Crow
   10  Barn Swallow
    1  European Starling
    1  Northern Mockingbird
    1  Cedar Waxwing
    1  Common Yellowthroat - female/imm.
   93  22 species    

 Butterflies
    1  Black Swallowtail
  109  Cabbage White
    3  Clouded Sulfer
   28  Orange Sulfer
   19  Pearl Crescent
    1  American Lady - large eye spot on HW
    6  Monarch
    6  Wild Indigo Duskywing
    1  Sachem
 
 Dragonflies
   22  Common Whitetail
   68  Twelve-spotted Skimmer
    1  Bar-winged Skimmer? 
    1  Eastern Pondhawk - female  
 
 
        Kevin Graff
        Jarrettsville, MD & Ocean City, MD
        



		
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