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Eden Mill & Fort Mac, 4/12/06

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Kevin Graff

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Kevin Graff

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Thu, 13 Apr 2006 07:00:47 -0700

Hi all,


8am-10am
Eden Mill Nature Center, Eden Mill Rd., Pylesville,
Harford Co., MD

WEATHER: PC, 55-59 degrees, SSE 9 mph- S 9 mph

   8  Canada Goose - one ON, wetlands trail
   1  Wood Duck - drake
   4  Mallard - all drakes
   4  Double-crested Cormorant
   2  Black Vulture
   5  Turkey Vulture
   2  Sharp-shinned Hawk
   1  Red-shouldered Hawk
   2  Red-tailed Hawk
   1  American Kestrel - headed NE
   3  Mourning Dove
   2  Downy Woodpecker
   4  Eastern Phoebe
   2  Blue-headed Vireo - Mingo Trail
   4  American Crow
   1  Fish Crow
   3  Tree Swallow
   2  Carolina Chickadee
   1  White-breasted Nuthatch
   2  Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
   2  Eastern Bluebird
   2  American Robin
   3  Yellow-rumped Warbler
   3  Palm Warbler
   1  Louisiana Waterthrush
   1  Common Yellowthroat
   3  Chipping Sparrow
   1  Field Sparrow 
   2  Song Sparrow
   3  White-throated Sparrow
   2  "Slate-colored" Junco
   5  Northern Cardinal
   3  Red-winged Blackbird
   2  Brown-headed Cowbird
  87  34 species

Mammals
   4  Gray Squirrel

Reptiles
   2  Eastern Painted Turtle

Amphibians
   1  Northern Dusky Salamander
   4  Northern Red-backed Salamander - 2 Lead-backed
   1  Spring Peeper - wetlands trail
   6  Bullfrog - wetlands trail
   1  Green Frog - wetlansa trail
   1  Southern Leopard Frog - wetlands trail

Butterflies
   7  Cabbage White
   1  Falcate Orangetip - female
   2  Clouded/Orange Sulphur - female white form
   5  Orange Sulphur
   5  Spring Azure
   2  Azure sp.
   6  Meadow Fritillary
   2  Juvenal's Duskywing

Dragonflies
   1  Common Green Darner

Moth
   1  Grapevine Epimenis - beautiful colors

Fish
 157  Blacknose Dace - around Big Branch Bridge
   3  Fallfish - same as above, water very clear  



Baltimore Bird Club's first of the series evening
weekly birdwalk, next walk on April 19 at 6pm.

6pm-8pm
Ft McHenry National Monument, end of Fort Ave., Locust
Point section of Baltimore, MD

LEADER: Jim Peters
Observers: 8

WEATHER: CLoudy, 67-64 degrees, S 21 mph- S 15 mph

  74  Canada Goose
   1  American Wigeon - drake
  14  Mallard
   4  Lesser Scaup
  11  Bufflehead
   1  Horned Grebe
  21  Double-crested Cormorant
   1  CATTLE EGRET
   1  Bald Eagle
   2  Osprey - ON
   1  Peregrine Falcon
  17  Bonaparte's Gull
  87  Ring-billed Gull
 132  Herring Gull
  57  Great Black-backed Gull
   2  Caspian Tern
   2  Rock Pigeon
   7  Mourning Dove
   1  CHIMNEY SWIFT - first of season
   2  Northern Flicker
   9  Fish Crow
   4  Tree Swallow
   7  Northern Rough-winged Swallow
   2  House Wren
   1  Ruby-crowned Kinglet
   6  Hermit Thrush
  22  American Robin
   1  Northern Mockingbird
   1  Brown Thrasher
  21  European Starling
   1  Palm Warbler - yellow
   3  Eastern Towhee
   4  Field Sparrow
  16  Song Sparrow
   2  Swamp Sparrow
   6  White-throated Sparrow
   8  "Slate-colored" Junco
   3  Northern Cardinal
  10  Red-winged Blackbird
  19  Common Grackle
   2  House Sparrow
 586  41 species

Mammals
   9  Gray Squirrel
   1  Red Fox


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



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