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Cylburn Arboretum & beyond, 9/4/05

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Kevin Graff

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Kevin Graff

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Mon, 5 Sep 2005 16:44:50 -0700

Hi all,
  

Soory, it is getting late this evening, stayed home
all day today doing chores outside. 

Baltimore Bird Club trip
 
815am-1130am - 9/4/05
Cylburn Arboretum, Greenspring Ave., Cold
Spring-Newtown section of Baltimore, MD
 
Leader: No designated leader for this Self-Guided 
        Walk - second of the series weekly birdwalk
        Next bird walk on Sept. 11th at 830am 
Observers: 9   

Weather: PC, 67-78 degree, calm- NNW 6 mph

   1  Black Vulture
   1  Turkey Vulture
   1  Broad-winged Hawk
  11  Rock Pigeon   
  18  Mourning Dove
   7  Chimney Swift
   1  Ruby-throated Hummingbird
   1  Red-bellied Woodpecker
   1  Downy Woodpecker
   1  Northern Flicker
   2  Eastern Wood-Pewee
   1  emp. flycatcher sp.
   1  White-eyed Vireo
   3  Red-eyed Vireo
   2  American Crow
   2  Carolina Chickadee
   1  Red-breasted Nuthatch
   2  White-breasted Nuthatch
   1  Carolina Wren
   2  House Wren
  13  American Robin
  11  Gray Catbird   
   3  Northern Mockingbird
  26  European Starling
   1  Northern Parula
   1  Magnolia Warbler
   1  Black-throated Green Warbler
   2  Black-and-white Warbler
   2  Eastern Towhee
   2  Song Sparrow
  11  Northern Cardinal
   3  Common Grackle 
   1  Brown-headed Cowbird
  13  House Finch
  19  American Goldfinch
  12  House Sparrow
 181  35 species

Mammals
   8  Gray Squirrel

Butterflies
  1  Pipevine Swallowtail - trail downhill 
 37  Eastern Tiger Swallowtail
  1  Black Swallowtail
  9  Cabbage White
  1  Clouded Sulphur
  8  Eastern Tailed Blue
  7  Pearl Crescent
  1  American Lady
  2  Red-spotted Purple
  1  Monarch
 11  Silver-spotted Skipper
 10  Least Skipper
  2  Fiery Skipper
  1  Crossline Skipper - lumberyard area
  7  Peck's Skipper - lumberyard & butterfly garden
  4  Sachem 

Dragonflies
  1  Common Green Darner
  2  Swamp Darner
  1  Arrrowhead Spiketail - near dried-out bog
  1  Mocha Emerald - side of tree at dried-out bog
  1  Common Whitetail - female at lumberyard
 11  Twelve-spotted Skimmer
 10  Great Blue Skimmer - lumberyard
  1  Eastern Pondhawk
 10  Wandering Glider
  1  Carolina Saddlebags - lumberyard

1215pm-1245pm
Brown's Bridge Recreation Area at T. Howard Duckett
Watershed, Brown's Bridge Rd.-Ednor Rd., Fulton,
Howard & Montgomery Counties, MD

Weather: PC, 80-81 degree, variable 6 mph- var. 7 mph

   3  Great Blue Heron - Howard
   7  Green Heron - 1 in Mont.
   2  Turkey Vulture - Howard
  10  Mallard - Howard
   1  Semipalmated Plover - Howard
  46  Killdeer - Howard
   1  Lesser Yellowlegs - Howard
   1  Solitary Sandpiper - Howard
   1  Spotted Sandpiper - Montgomery
  13  Least Sandpiper - Howard
   1  Pectoral Sandpiper - Howard
   1  Belted Kingfisher - flyby at county border
   1  Yellow-billed Cuckoo - flyby from How to Mont.
   1  Eastern Wood-Pewee - Howard
   1  Black-throated Green Warbler - Howard
   1  Ovenbird - Howard
   1  Common Yellowthroat - Howard
   2  American Goldfinch
      18 species

Butterflies
   1  Variegated Fritillary
   5  Least Skipper
  
Dragonflies
   7  Common Green Darner
   8  Eastern Pondhawk
   1  Wandering Glider
 
120pm-220pm  
Patton Turf Farm & portion of White's Ferry area of  C
& O NHP (roadside) & along River Rd., from White's
Ferry Rd. S to Elmer School Rd., Martinsburg,
Montgomery Co., MD

Weather: MC-PC, 79-81 degree, NW 9 mph- NNW 7 mph

   1  AMERICAN GOLDEN-PLOVER
  26  Killdeer
   1  BUFF-BREASTED SANDPIPER
   1  Pectoral Sandpiper - took off headed E
   2  Mourning Dove
   1  Red-bellied Woodpecker
   1  Pileated Woodpecker - flyby S 
   2  Eastern Wood-Pewee
   1  Acadian Flycatcher
   1  Least Flycatcher
   1  White-eyed Vireo
   1  Red-eyed Vireo
   2  American Crow
 333  Tree Swallow - on wires
   2  Northern Rough-winged Swallow
  19  Bank Swallow
   2  Barn Swallow
   1  Eastern Bluebird
   4  American Robin
   1  Northern Mockingbird
  51  European Starling 
   1  Brown Thrasher
   1  Blue-winged warbler
   1  Chestnut-sided Warbler
   1  Prairie Warbler
   1  Black-and-white Warbler 
   1  Eastern Towhee
   1  Chipping Sparrow
   2  Field Sparrow
   5  American Goldfinch
 468  30 species

Butterflies
   1  Pipevine Swallowtail
  54  Eastern Tiger Swallowtail - all over road area
   9  Cabbage White
   1  American Copper
   1  Meadow Fritillary
  87  Red-spotted Purple - commited suicide all over
   1  Viceroy                               River Rd.
   4  Monarch   

Dragonflies
   7  Common Green Darner
   2  Twelve-spotted Skimmer
   1  Great Blue Skimmer
  11  Slaty Skimmer  
   1  Eastern Amberwing
   3  Wandering Glider
   2  Black Saddlebags

      Kevin Graff
      Jarrettsville, MD & Ocean City, MD
      





	
		
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