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Patuxent Research Refuge "North Tract", 5/07/06

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Kevin Graff

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Kevin Graff

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Mon, 8 May 2006 07:51:51 -0700

Hi all


Baltimore Bird Club trip

8am-4pm
Patuxent Research Refuge "North Tract", Bald Eagle
Dr., and Wildlife Loop, Ft Meade, Anne Arundel Co., MD

LEADER: Steve Sanford
OBSERVERS: 5

WEATHER: Fair, 53-65 degrees, NE 9 mph- E 9 mph

  23  Canada Goose
   3  Wood Duck
  17  Mallard
   6  Great Blue Heron
   1  Green Heron
   2  Black Vulture
  11  Turkey Vulture
   2  Bald Eagle
   1  Cooper's Hawk
   3  Red-shouldered Hawk
   1  Red-tailed Hawk
   2  Semipalmated Plover
   1  Killdeer
   1  Lesser Yellowlegs
   2  Solitary Sandpiper
   3  Least Sandpiper
   7  Rock Pigeon - Park-n-Ride
   7  Mourning Dove
   1  Black-billed Cuckoo
   2  Yellow-billed Cuckoo
   1  Barred Owl
   1  Ruby-throated Hummingbird
   1  Red-bellied Woodpecker
   1  Downy Woodpecker - Park-n-Ride
   1  Hairy Woodpecker
   1  Northern Flicker
   1  Pileated Woodpecker
   1  Eastern Wood-Pewee
   1  Acadian Flycatcher
   5  Eastern Phoebe
   1  Great-crested Flycatcher
   5  Eastern Kingbird
   3  White-eyed Vireo
   2  Yellow-throated Vireo
  12  Red-eyed Vireo
   6  Blue Jay
   2  American Crow
  33  Tree Swallow
  11  N. Rough-winged Swallow
   1  Bank Swallow
  28  Barn Swallow
   5  Carolina Chickadee
   7  Tufted Titmouse
   2  White-breasted Nuthatch
   5  Carolina Wren
   9  Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
   7  Eastern Bluebird
   3  Wood Thrush
   6  American Robin
  14  Gray Catbird
   1  Brown Thrasher
  17  European Starling
  27  Cedar Waxwing - two flocks
   1  Blue-winged Warbler
   1  Nashville Warbler
   7  Northern Parula
   2  Chestnut-sided Warbler
   2  Black-throated Blue Warbler
   5  Yellow-rumped Warbler
   2  Black-throated Green Warbler
   1  Pine Warbler
  13  Prairie Warbler
   3  Black-and-white Warbler
  13  American Redstart
   1  Worm-eating Warbler
  11  Ovenbird
   4  Louisiana Waterthrush
   3  Common Yellowthroat
   4  Hooded Warbler
   4  Yellow-breasted Chat
   3  Summer Tanager
   4  Scarlet Tanager
   3  Eastern Towhee
   3  Chipping Sparrow
   2  Field Sparrow
   1  Song Sparrow
   9  White-throated Sparrow
   2  Northern Cardinal
   8  Blue Grosbeak
   2  Indigo Bunting
   5  BOBOLINK
  39  Red-winged Blackbird
  38  Common Grackle
  22  Brown-headed Cowbird
   8  Orchard Oriole
   2  Baltimore Oriole
  19  American Goldfinch
   7  House Sparrow - Park-n-Ride
 571  88 species

Mammals
   6  Gray Squirrel

Reptiles
  39  Eastern Painted Turtle
   2  Red-bellied Turtle
   1  Six-lined Racerunner
   2  Northern Water Snake

Amphibians
   1  Southern Leopard Frog

Butterfiles
  29  Eastern Tiger Swallowtail
  60  Zebra Swallowtail
   1  Spicebush Swallowtail
   9  Cabbage White
   1  Checkered White
  12  Orange Sulphur 
  22  Spring Azure
  33  Eastern Tailed Blue
   6  Variegated Fritillary
   2  Meadow Fritillary
  42  Pearl Crescent
   4  Silver-spotted Skipper
   3  Least Skipper 

Dragonflies
  56  Common Green Darner
   3  Swamp Darner
   1  Ashy Clubtail
   1  Arrowhead Spiketail
   1  Stream Cruiser
   4  Common Baskettail
   3  Common Whitetail
  38  Twelve-spotted Skimmer
   3  Blue Corporal
  21  Slaty Skimmer
 204  Eastern Pondhawk 

**could have seen a Dragonhunter just beyond the
Bailey's Bridge. It took off too quick for a better
id's**

Damselflies
   3  Azure Bluet
   2  Eastern Forktail

Moth
   1  Virgin Moth
   1  Hummingbird Clearwing Moth
   2  Orange Holomelina

Fish
 100+ unidentified minnows - swamp past Bailey Bridge
  31  Black Crappe? - Lake Allen

Beetles
   7  Six-spotted Tiger Beetle


       Kevin Graff
       Jarrettsville, MD & West Ocean City, MD
       


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