Message:

[

Previous   Next

]

By Topic:

[

Previous   Next

]

Subject:

Cylburn Arboretum & Sligo Creek Park, 4/02/06

From:

Kevin Graff

Reply-To:

Kevin Graff

Date:

Mon, 3 Apr 2006 16:56:56 -0700

Hi all,


815am-1045am 
Cylburn Arboretum, Greenspring Ave., Cold
Spring-Newtown section of Baltimore, MD
 
Leader: No designated leader for this Self-Guided 
        Walk - third of the series weekly birdwalk
        Next bird walk on 4/09/06 at 830am 
        
Observers: 12  

WEATHER: PC/MC, 52-60 degrees, WSW 5 mph- N 9 mph

   2  Canada Goose
   3  Mallard - 2 flyby
   1  Double-crested Cormorant
   1  Black Vulture - on way out
   1  Turkey Vulture
   1  Cooper's Hawk
   2  Red-tailed Hawk
  15  Mourning Dove
   6  Red-bellied Woodpecker
   2  Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
   3  Downy Woodpecker
   3  Northern Flicker
   1  Eastern Phoebe
   2  Blue Jay
   2  American Crow
   2  Tree Swallow
   1  Northern Rough-winged Swallow
   2  Carolina Chickadee
   8  Tufted Titmouse
   2  White-breasted Nuthatch
  61  American Robin
   9  European Starling
   1  Yellow-rumped Warbler
   2  Eastern Towhee
   3  Song Sparrow
  11  White-throated Sparrow
   7  "Slate-colored" Junco
  10  Northern Cardinal
   2  Red-winged Blackbird
   1  Common Grackle
   1  Brown-headed Cowbird
   2  House Finch
   5  American Goldfinch
   2  House Sparrow
 177  34 species

Mammals
   9  Gray Squirrel

Amphibians
   7  Northern Red-backed Salamander 

Butterflies
   2  Cabbage White
   2  Orange Sulphur
   8  Eastern Tailed Blue


1135am-1pm
Sligo Creek Park, Piney Branch Rd & Sligo Creek Pkwy,
Silver Spring, Montgomery Co., MD  *very slow*

Visitor: 11 curious joggers/bikers

WEATHER: PC, 63-64 degrees, NW 9 mph- N 10 mph

   6  Yellow-crowned Night Heron
   1  Red-shouldered Hawk
   3  Rock Pigeon - flyby
   1  Mourning Dove
   1  Belted Kingfisher
   2  Red-bellied Woodpecker
   1  Northern Flicker
   1  Eastern Phoebe
   1  American Crow
   2  Tufted Titmouse
   1  White-breasted Nuthatch
   1  Carolina Wren
   3  American Robin
   1  Northern Mockingbird
   5  European Starling
   1  Louisiana Waterthrush - near Wayne Ave.
   1  Song Sparrow
   4  "Slate-colored" Junco
   2  Northern Cardinal
   2  Common Grackle
   1  Brown-headed Cowbird
   3  House Sparrow
  44  22 species

Mammals
  10  Gray Squirrel

Butterflies
   5  Cabbage White


        Kevin Graff
        Jarrettsville, MD & West O.C., MD
        

P.S. It is 745pm and I gotta get back to the firehouse
to prepare for several calls due to nasty storm is on
the way.

__________________________________________________
Do You Yahoo!?
Tired of spam?  Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around 
http://mail.yahoo.com