Hi all,


Baltimore Bird Club/Wild Bird Center trip

09/23/06 - 7am-630pm
Cromwell Valley Park "Willow Grove Farm, Sherwood
Farm, & Hawkwatch On The Hill" Cromwell Bridge Rd.,
Carney, Baltimore Co., MD

LEADERS: Kevin Graff (BBC) & Kate Manrodt (WBC)
OBSERVERS: 10 for birdwalk, 20 observers & 14 visitors

           for hawkwatch
WEATHER: Cloudy/MC, 66-77 degrees, S 8 mph- S 5 mph


   6  Mallard
   1  Great Blue Heron
   8  Black Vulture
  17  Turkey Vulture
   6  Osprey - migrant
   1  Bald Eagle - 1st y, migrants
   1  Northern Harrier - migrants
  16  Sharp-shinned Hawk - 2 locals
   2  Cooper's Hawk - 1 local
   3  Red-shouldered Hawk - migrants
   3  Broad-winged Hawk - migrants
   4  Red-tailed Hawk - locals
   1  Unidentified Buteo - swoop down behind ridge
   2  American Kestrel - migrants
   2  Merlin - migrants 
   1  Peregrine Falcon - migrants
   1  Unidentified Falcon - same as unid's buteo
   7  Ring-billed Gull
  28  Rock Pigeon
  16  Mourning Dove
   1  Great Horned Owl - mobbed by crows
  10  Common Nighthawk
3986  Chimney Swift - several kettles headed SW, pm
   1  Ruby-throated Hummingbird
   6  Red-bellied Woodpecker
   1  Downy Woodpecker
   1  Hairy Woodpecker
  46  Northern Flicker 
   2  Eastern Wood-Pewee     
   8  Eastern Phoebe
   1  Great-crested Flycatcher
   2  Red-eyed Vireo
 171  Blue Jay
  33  American Crow - 28 mobbed owl  
   8  Carolina Chickadee
   2  Tufted Titmouse
   1  White-breasted Nuthatch
   4  Carolina Wren
   1  House Wren
  81  Eastern Bluebird - several fallout
  56  American Robin
  34  Gray Catbird  
   7  Northern Mockingbird
   5  Brown Thrasher
   4  European Starling
 155  Cedar Waxwing 
   1  Chestnut-sided Warbler
   4  Magnolia Warbler
   1  Black-throated Blue Warbler
   1  Black-and-white Warbler
   1  Common Yellowthroat
   1  Eastern Towhee
  26  Chipping Sparrow
   1  Field Sparrow
  16  Northern Cardinal
   2  Indigo Bunting
   2  Bobolink
   6  Red-winged Blackbird - flyby
   2  Common Grackle 
   5  House Finch
  19  American Goldfinch
   2  House Sparrow
4843  60 species

Mammals
   9  Gray Squirrel
   2  White-tailed Deer

Butterflies
   1  Eastern Tiger Swallowtail
   1  Orange Sulphur
   2  Eastern Tailed Blue
   1  Variegated Fritillary
   6  Common Buckeye
   1  Red Admiral
 188  Monarch
   1  Fiery Skipper
   6  Sachem
   8  Peck's Skipper

Dragonflies
   2  Common Green Darner
  13  Black Saddlebags


       Kevin Graff
       Jarrettsville, MD
       



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