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Ft Smallwood Park, 4/15/06

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Kevin Graff

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Kevin Graff

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Sun, 16 Apr 2006 19:11:11 -0700

Hi all,


Sorry for the delay. Family activities al afternoon
and evening. Had trouble finding right county line for
the gannet I saw in distance and made U-turn south
near red/white/red bouy and concrete platform. Made 4
trips to North Point State Park/Ft Howard this past
week and half for gannets, nothing. 


7am-7pm 
Fort Smallwood Park, Fort Smallwood Rd., Pasadena,  
Anne Arundel Co., MD

COUNTERS/OBSERVERS: 5
VISITORS: 10

WEATHER: MC/PC, 64-81-76 degrees, SSW 7 mph- WNW 15 
         mph- WNW 12 mph

   8  Canada Goose - 3 ON
   5  Mute Swan - 1 ON
  10  Mallard
   7  Bufflehead
  10  Common Loon - migrants
   1  NORTHERN GANNET - 717am, Kent/AACo/Balto Co????
  52  Double-crested Cormorant - 41 migrants
   8  Great Blue Heron - 2 migrants
   1  Great Egret
   3  Snowy Egret - migrants
   1  Green Heron
  29  Black Vulture - migrants
 123  Turkey Vulture - 3 local, rest are migrants
  24  Osprey - 18 migrants
   3  Bald Eagle - 2 migrants
   2  Northern Harrier - migrants
  78  Sharp-shinned Hawk - migrants
   9  Cooper's Hawk - migrants
   6  Red-shouldered Hawk - migrants
  39  Broad-winged Hawk - migrants
  16  Red-tailed Hawk - migrants
  37  American Kestrel - migrants
   2  Merlin - migrants
   3  Unidentified Raptors - migrants
   2  Killdeer
   1  Laughing Gull - migrants?
  34  Ring-billed Gull
  49  Herring Gull
  30  Great Black-backed Gull
   2  Caspian Tern - migrants?
  61  Rock Pigeon - most flyby S
  15  Mourning Dove
   7  Chimney Swift - migrants
   1  Belted Kingfisher - migrants, high flyer
   2  Red-headed Woodpecker
   2  Red-bellied Woodpecker - NB, heard calling 
  11  Northern Flicker - 5 migrants
   1  Eastern Phoebe
   1  Eastern Kingbird - migrants 
 286  Blue Jay - 281 migrants
   6  American Crow 
   2  Fish Crow
1536  Tree Swallow - migrants
 697  Northern Rough-winged Swallow - migrants
   2  Cliff Swallow - migrants
 115  Barn Swallow - migrants
   4  Carolina Chickadee
   1  Tufted Titmouse
   5  Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
  53  American Robin - 10 migrants
   4  Northern Mockingbird
   2  Brown Thrasher
  53  European Starling
  33  Cedar Waxwing - migrants
   4  Palm Warbler - migrants
   1  Savannah Sparrow - around 7am
  10  Song Sparrow
   5  White-throated Sparrow
   8  Northern Cardinal
 153  Red-winged Blackbird - 143 migrants
  19  Common Grackle
  11  Brown-headed Cowbird
 434  American Goldfinch - 429 migrants
4140  62 species

Mammals
  11  Gray Squirrel
   1  Muskrat      

Reptiles
  23  Eastern Painted Turtle
  11  Red-bellied Turtle
   1  Northern Water Snake

Amphibians
   1  Southern Leopard Frog

Butterflies
  15  Eastern Tiger Swallowtail
   1  Black Swallowtail
  33  Cabbage White
  13  Checkered White
   2  Clouded/Orange Sulphur
   2  Clouded Sulphur
  49  Orange Sulphur
   7  Spring Azure
   4  Azure sp.
   8  Eastern Tailed Blue
   1  Meadow Fritillary
  38  Variegated Fritillary
   3  Pearl Crescent
   1  Question Mark
  16  Monarch - migrants
    
Dragonflies
  11  Common Green Darner
   1  Swamp Darner
   1  Blue Corporal - female
 
  
     
Non-raptors headed N by hours
 
7-8    2  Common Loon
       5  Double-crested Cormorant
      10  Blue Jay
      25  Tree Swallow
      10  Northern Rough-winged Swallow
       4  Barn Swallow
      28  Red-winged Blackbird
      42  American Goldfinch
 
8-9   11  Double-crested Cormorant 
       2  Great Blue Heron
       1  Caspian Tern
       1  Belted Kingfisher - high flyer
      54  Blue Jay
      38  Tree Swallow
      13  Cedar Waxwing
      31  Red-winged Blackbird
      26  American Goldfinch

9-10   8  Common Loon
      23  Double-crested Cormorant 
       1  Snowy Egret
       1  Chimney Swift
       2  Northern Flicker
      76  Blue Jay
      72  Tree Swallow
      42  Northern Rough-winged Swallow
       3  Barn Swallow
       4  Palm Warbler - w/ goldfinches 
      20  Cedar Waxwing
      43  Red-winged Blackbird
      75  American Goldfinch
     
10-11  1  Double-crested Cormorant
      63  Blue Jay
     215  Tree Swallow
      93  Northern Rough-winged Swallow  
       5  Barn Swallow
      89  American Goldfinch 

11-12 55  Blue Jay
      72  Tree Swallow
      91  Northern Rough-winged Swallow
      42  American Goldfinch
 
12-1   1  Double-crested Cormorant
       2  Chimney Swift
       5  Blue Jay
     155  Tree Swallow
     109  Northern Rough-winged Swallow  
       2  Cliff Swallow - lost track of time
      14  Barn Swallow 
      43  American Goldfinch

1-2    1  Chimney Swift
     270  Tree Swallow
     145  Northern Rough-winged Swallow 
      21  Barn Swallow
      31  American Goldfinch
 
2-3    3  Northern Flicker
       8  Blue Jay
     199  Tree Swallow
      66  Northern Rough-winged Swallow
      24  Barn Swallow 
      22  American Goldfinch

3-4    2  Snowy Egret
     155  Tree Swallow
      54  Northern Rough-winged Swallow
      14  American Goldfinch     
 
4-5    1  Chimney Swift
     103  Tree Swallow
      15  Northern Rough-winged Swallow
      30  Red-winged Blackbird
      14  American Goldfinch

5-6    1  Laughing Gull
      10  Blue Jay
      88  Tree Swallow
      19  Northern Rough-winged Swallow
      19  American Goldfinch
 
6-7    1  Caspian Tern
       2  Chimney Swift
       1  Eastern Kingbird 
     144  Tree Swallow
      53  Northern Rough-winged Swallow
      44  Barn Swallow
      10  American Robin
      11  Red-winged Blackbird
      12  American Goldfinch       


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


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