Hi all,


Wild Bird Center Birdwalk, 9/24/05

8am-430pm
Cromwell Valley Park "Willow Grove Farm, Sherwood Farm
& Hawkwatch On The Hill" Cromwell Bridge Rd., Carney,
Baltimore Co., MD

Leader: Kate Manrodt for WBC
Observers: 7, 3 of us joins hawkwatch later

Weather: MC-Cloudy, 68-73 degree, calm- ENE 7 mph

   6  Black Vulture - local
  11  Turkey Vulture - local
 259  Canada Goose - they're back! 12 flocks headed SE
  21  Osprey - migrants
   7  Bald Eagle - migrants
   2  Northern Harrier - migrants
  20  Sharp-shinned Hawk - migrants, 1 local
   7  Cooper's Hawk - migrants, 2 local
   1  Red-shouldered Hawk - local
1412  Broad-winged Hawk - migrants
   1  Red-tailed Hawk - local
   6  American Kestrel - migrants
   6  Merlin - migrants
   4  Peregrine Falcon - migrants
   3  Unidentified Accipiter - migrants
   1  Unidentified Buteo - migrants
   1  Unidentified Falcon - migrants
   5  Ring-billed Gull  - flyby to reservoir
 **1  ROYAL TERN - flyby NE toward reservoir**
   5  Rock Pigeon - flyby
  24  Mourning Dove
   6  Chimney Swift
   8  Red-bellied Woodpecker
   2  Downy Woodpecker
  25  Northern Flicker
   3  Eastern Wood-Pewee
   4  Acadian Flycatcher
   2  Eastern Phoebe
   2  Red-eyed Vireo
  58  Blue Jay - on the move, E & SE
   7  American Crow
   2  Carolina Chickadee
   2  White-breasted Nuthatch
   4  Carolina Wren
   1  House Wren
   5  Ruby-crowned Kinglet - flyby w/ bluebirds SW
  27  Eastern Bluebird - flyby SW, some in area
  83  American Robin - flyby SSE
  26  Gray Catbird
   5  Northern Mockingbird
   1  Brown Thrasher
  26  European Starling - flyby
  35  Cedar Waxwing - some flyby
   2  Northern Parula
   5  Magnolia Warbler
   1  Palm Warbler - yellow
   3  Common Yellowthroat
  13  Chipping Sparrow
  11  Northern Cardinal 
   1  Rose-breasted Grosbeak
   4  Common Grackle - flyby
   8  House Finch
  45  American Goldfinch
   4  House Sparrow
2234  51 species

Mammals
   4  Eastern Gray Squirrel

Butterflies
 105  Monarch - 4 caterpillers, 97 headed SE
  
Dragonflies
   1  Common Green Darner
   1  Black Saddlebag  

I made brief stop at my old BYHW (Backyard Hawk Watch
in Baltimore) at the ridge this past Mon, Tues, Wed
and Thurs after work at 5pm till 7pm. More than 4000
Brodwings still continue to fly over the ridge same
way as they did during my 9 years there 1992-2001.
I will post it sometimes today as soon as I finish my
Cylburn walk report from earlier today. 

       Kevin Graff
       Jarrettsville, MD & Ocean City, MD
       
     



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