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May Count: Cromwell Valley & The Maryland Zoo, 5/13/06

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Kevin Graff

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Kevin Graff

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Sun, 14 May 2006 11:20:20 -0700

Hi all,


International Migratory Bird Day - 5/13/06
My 11th May Count for Cromwell Valley Park since '96
    9th May Count for The Maryland Zoo since '96 

630am-1230pm
Cromwell Valley Park "Willow Grove Farm & Sherwood
Farm" Cromwell Bridge Rd & along Loch Raven Dr. from
lower dam to Cromwell Bridge Rd., Carney, Baltimore
Co., MD

OBSERVERS: 4

WEATHER: MC/PC, 55-68 degrees, calm- SE 7 mph

   2  Canada Goose
   1  Wood Duck
   5  Mallard
  18  Double-crested Cormorant - flock of 6, 7 & 5
   2  Great Blue Heron
   1  Black-crowned Night Heron
   1  Black Vulture
   8  Turkey Vulture
   1  Osprey
   2  Cooper's Hawk
   3  Red-tailed Hawk
   1  Spotted Sandpiper
   5  Ring-billed Gull
   1  Rock Dove
  21  Mourning Dove
   5  Chimney Swift 
   1  Ruby-throated Hummngbird
   1  Belted Kingfisher
   5  Red-bellied Woodpecker
   1  Downy Woodpecker
   2  Northern Flicker
   1  Eastern Wood-Pewee
   3  Acadian Flycatcher
   3  Eastern Phoebe
   1  Great-crested Flycatcher
   4  Eastern Kingbird
   3  White-eyed Vireo
   1  Yellow-throated Vireo
   4  Warbling Vireo
  10  Red-eyed Vireo
   6  Blue Jay
   5  American Crow
  14  Tree Swallow
   4  Northern Rough-winged Swallow
   4  Cliff Swallow - Loch Raven Dr. bridge
  15  Barn Swallow
   7  Carolina Chickadee
   1  Tufted Titmouse
   1  White-breasted Nuthatch
   5  Carolina Wren
   6  House Wren
   8  Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
  13  Eastern Bluebird
   1  Veery 
   4  Wood Thrush
  54  American Robin
  16  Gray Catbird
   6  Northern Mockingbird
   4  Brown Thrasher
  27  European Starling
  45  Cedar Waxwing
   1  Northern Parula
   5  Yellow Warbler
   1  Magnolia Warbler
   1  Blackpoll Warbler
   1  Black-and-white Warbler
   4  Ovenbird
   1  Northern Waterthrush
   1  Kentucky Warbler
   6  Common Yellowthroat
   1  Wilson's Warbler
   1  Scarlet Tanager
   1  Eastern Towhee
  13  Chipping Sparrow
   5  Song Sparrow
  22  Northern Cardinal
   1  Rose-breasted Grosbeak
   3  Blue Grosbeak
   6  Indigo Bunting
   1  Bobolink - brief view
  31  Red-winged Blackbird
  18  Common Grackle 
   4  Brown-headed Cowbird
   8  Orchard Oriole
  14  Baltimore Oriole
   6  House Finch
  11  American Goldfinch
   4  House Sparrow
 552  78 species (73 in 2005)

Mammals
   3  Eastern Cottontail
   2  Eastern Chipmunk
  18  Gray Squirrel
   1  Red Fox
   3  White-tailed Deer

Reptiles
   6  Eastern Painted Turtle

Amphibians
   1  Green Frog
   1  American Toad - also 250 tadpoles, more eggs too

Butterflies
  13  Eastern Tiger Swallowtail
   1  Black Swallowtail
   5  Cabbage White
   1  Checkered White
   1  Clouded Sulphur
   9  Orange Sulphur
   1  Cloudless Sulphur
   1  Gray Hairstreak
   3  Spring Azure
  14  Eastern Tailed Blue
   6  Pearl Crescent
   1  Little Wood Satyr
   3  Peck's Skipper
   1  Least Skipper

Dragonflies
   2  Common Green Darner

Fishes (most near end of Minebank Run Trail)
   2  Cutlips Minnow
  65  Blacknose Dace
   3  Pickeral sp.
   1  Mottled Sculpin
   2  Largemouth Bass - Loch Raven Dr. bridge
  11  Yellow Perch
  16  Minnow sp. 


1255pm-4pm
Druid Hill Park, Greenspring Ave, Hanlon Dr., Forest
Dr., Mountain Pass, and Parkdale Dr., Mondawmin
section of Baltimore, MD

OBSERVERS: 2

WEATHER: MC/PC, 68-72 degrees, SE 7 mph 

  10  Canada Goose
   9  Mallard - hen with 3 ducklings, Druid Hill Lake
   3  Ruddy Duck - 1 drake, 2 hens, Druid Hill Lake
   1  Great Blue Heron
   2  Turkey Vulture
   1  Red-shouldered Hawk
   1  Red-tailed Hawk
   2  Ring-billed Gull
   5  Herring Gull
   4  Great Black-backed Gull
  29  Rock Dove
   7  Mourning Dove
  19  Chimney Swift
   4  Red-bellied Woodpecker 
   1  Downy Woodpecker
   1  Northern Flicker
   1  Acadian Flycatcher
   2  Great-crested Flycatcher
   1  Eastern Kingbird
   3  Warbling Vireo
   6  Red-eyed Vireo
   1  Blue Jay
   2  American Crow
   7  Northern Rough-winged Swallow
   5  Barn Swallow
   1  Carolina Chickadee
   2  Tufted Titmouse
   2  White-breasted Nuthatch
   5  Carolina Wren
   4  Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
   2  Veery
   4  Swainson's Thrush
   4  Wood Thrush
  28  American Robin
  31  Gray Catbird
   1  Brown Thrasher
  18  European Starling
   2  Northern Parula
   1  Magnolia Warbler
   4  Black-throated Blue Warbler
   1  Yellow-rumped Warbler
   1  Blackburnian Warbler
   1  Black-and-white Warbler
   2  American Redstart
   3  Ovenbird
   1  Common Yellowthroat
   1  Hooded Warbler
   3  Eastern Towhee
   1  Chipping Sparrow
  14  Northern Cardinal
   1  Indigo Bunting
  17  Red-winged Blackbird
  11  Common Grackle
   1  Brown-headed Cowbird
   2  Baltimore Oriole
   8  House Finch
   5  American Goldfinch 
   6  House Sparrow
 315  59 species (88 species overall)
  
Mammals
   1  Eastern Chipmunk
  19  Gray Squirrel

Reptiles
   8  Eastern Painted Turtle


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




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