Hi all,
After missed the ride at I-70/Rt 32 by 10 minutes
for Bob's trip to Eastern Neck yesterday, decided to
hang out at Cromwell for a while. Ran into Bill Hubick
there and both of us went on birding to Loch Raven and
back and decide to check out the pines tree where he
heard 1 Black-capped earlier.
At the small row of pine trees covered with vines,
he heard the Black-capped again. After he doing some
pishing, the sound attracts 5 Carolina Wrens and 4-8
Black-capped, some in good view.
Later while doing hawkwatching with Jim Meyers, we
decide to do a quick look at Black-capped. It was not
found at same area as earlier, but farther west across
stream into big tract of pine trees up on the hill
borders housing development. We found two Black-capped
among many dozens Red-breasted Nuthatches,
White-breasted Nuthatches, Downy Woodpecker, Brown
Creeper, Golden-crowned Kinglet...... It's a good
thing I miss the carpool at I-70/Rt 32. It is a great
day to be out birding, and busy too with loads of
passerines everywhere.
730am-3pm
Cromwell Valley Park "Willow Grove Farm, Sherwood Farm
& Hawkwatch On The Hill", Cromwell Bridge Rd., Carney,
Baltimore Co., MD
Weather: Sunny, 31-55 degree, calm- SE 8 mph
1 Great Blue Heron
12 Black Vulture - local
16 Turkey Vulture - local
2 Snow Goose - fkyby SE
16 Canada Goose - flyby SE
5 Mallard - Loch Raven, below dam
2 Hooded Merganser - same as above
9 Sharp-shinned Hawk - 8 migrants, 1 local
2 Cooper's Hawk - migrants
7 Red-shouldered Hawk - 6 migrants, 1 local
12 Red-tailed Hawk - 11 migrants, 1 local
12 Ring-billed Gull
2 Herring Gull
13 Mourning Dove
2 Belted Kingfisher
6 Red-bellied Woodpecker
3 Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
9 Downy Woodpecker
3 Hairy Woodpecker
3 Northern Flicker
1 Eastern Phoebe
8 Blue Jay
517 American Crow - flyby around noon
5 Fish Crow
63 Carolina Chickadee
11 BLACK-CAPPED CHICKADEE
8 Tufted Titmouse
27 Red-breasted Nuthatch
8 White-breasted Nuthatch
4 Brown Creeper
14 Carolina Wren
1 Winter Wren
11 Golden-crowned Kinglet
2 Ruby-crowned Kinglet
28 Eastern Bluebird
5 American Robin
6 Northern Mockingbird
14 European Starling
42 Cedar Waxwing - small flocks headed SW
2 Yellow-rumped Warbler
1 Chipping Sparrow
1 Fox Sparrow
9 Song Sparrow
1 Swamp Sparrow
35 White-throated Sparrow
28 "Slate-colored" Junco
32 Northern Cardinal
8 Red-winged Blackbird
3 Purple Finch
12 House Finch
19 American Goldfinch
8 House Sparrow
1071 52 species
Mammals
2 Eastern Chipmunk
12 Gray Squirrel
1 Woodchunk
17 White-tailed Deer
Butterflies
1 Cabbage White
7 Orange Sulfer
3 Meadow Fritillary
3 Question Mark
1 Comma
Kevin Graff
Jarrettsville, MD & Ocean City, MD
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