Hi all,
Too many things to do (cutting woods under shelter,
ran couple fire calls...) while trying to get this
report done earlier today.
11/22/06 - 950am-1005am
Little Meadows Lake & Campground, Chestnut Ridge Rd.,
Grantsville, Garrett Co., MD
WEATHER: PC, 34-35 degrees, E 13 mph- E 10 mph
Canada Goose - 116
Gadwall - 2 (pair)
American Wigeon - 1 (drake)
Mallard - 16 (8 prs.)
Ring-necked Duck - 25 (13 drakes, 12 hens)
Lesser Scaup - 1 (hen)
Hooded Merganser - 1 (drake, smaller pond behind lake)
American Coot- 2
Downy Woodpecker - 1
Blue Jay - 2
American Crow - 2
Common Raven - 1 (flew over ridge behind house)
Carolina Wren - 1
Ruby-crowned Kinglet - 1
Cedar Waxwing - 16 (single flock S)
White-crowned Sparrow - 2
"Slate-colored" Junco - 1
House Finch - 4
SPECIES: 18
TOTAL BIRDS: 195
MAMMALS
Eastern Chipmunk -1
11/22/06 - 1015am -1105am
Frostburg Watershed "Piney Reservoir" & along road,
Piney Run Rd., Finzel, Garrett Co., MD
WEATHER: PC, 36 degrees, E 10 mph- E 7 mph
Bufflehead - 2 (hens)
Ruddy Duck - 2 (hens)
Pied-billed Grebe- 1
Double-crested Cormorant - 1
Black Vulture - 1 (headed SW behind hill)
Northern Harrier - 1 (female)
Sharp-shinned Hawk - 1 (headed S along I-68)
Red-shouldered Hawk - 2 (headed SW behind hill)
Red-tailed Hawk - 1 (headed SW)
GOLDEN EAGLE - 1 (headed SE I-68 before Allegany line)
American Kestrel - 1 (along road)
Rock Pigeon - 7
Mourning Dove - 2
Belted Kingfisher - 1
Red-bellied Woodpecker - 1
Hairy Woodpecker - 1
Pileated Woodpecker - 1
Blue Jay - 1
American Crow - 226 (a lot of rackets on the ground)
Black-capped Chickadee - 3
Red-breasted Nuthatch - 1
Brown Creeper - 1
Winter Wren - 1
Golden-crowned Kinglet - 1
Eastern Bluebird - 2
American Robin - 1 (flyby)
European Starling - 3 (w/ pigeons)
Yellow-rumped Warbler - 4
American Tree Sparrow - 1 (along road near first barn)
Field Sparrow - 1
Fox Sparrow - 2
Song Sparrow - 6
Swamp Sparrow - 1
White-throated Sparrow - 2
"Slate-colored" Junco - 3
Northern Cardinal - 3
Purple Finch - 2
Pine Siskin - 2 (w/ goldfinches on pine trees)
American Goldfinch - 4
EVENING GROSBEAK - 1 (flew over dam near walkway)
SPECIES: 40
TOTAL BIRDS: 299
MAMMALS
White-tailed Deer - 1
11/22/06 - 1135am-1215pm
C & O Canal National Historical Park & Trail "Canal
Terminus" Cumberland, Allegany Co., MD
WEATHER: Fair/PC, 41-42 degrees, calm- WNW 4 mph
Canada Goose - 211
American Black Duck - 2
Mallard - 10
Bufflehead - 2
Hooded Merganser - 4 (2 prs.)
Great Blue Heron - 1
Turkey Vulture - 1
Cooper's Hawk - 1
American Coot - 3
Killdeer - 1
Rock Pigeon - 81 (on wires and nearby roofs)
Belted Kingfisher - 1
Carolina Wren - 1
European Starling - 113 (on wires)
Savannah Sparrow - 1
Song Sparrow - 2
SPECIES: 16
TOTAL BIRDS: 435
11/22/06 - 1215pm-1240pm (made stops where birds are)
Along Uhl Hwy (Rt. 51), Oldtown, Allegany Co., MD
WEATHER: pc, 43 DEGREES, WNW 4 mph- NNE 6 mph
Canada Goose - 29 (farm pond)
Mallard - 2 (farm pond)
Ring-necked Duck - 1 (drake, farm pond)
Great Blue Heron - 1 (farm pond close to road)
Turkey Vulture - 4
Sharp-shinned Hawk - 1
Red-tailed Hawk - 2
American Kestrel - 1
Downy Woodpecker - 1
Eastern Bluebird - 2
European Starling - 4
American Pipit - 1 (on unpaved road near cattles)
Yellow-rumped Warbler - 1
Palm Warbler - 1 (yellow, a bit late for W MD??)
Song Sparrow - 2
"Slate-colored" Junco - 5
Northern Cardinal - 1
Red-winged Blackbird - 6
American Goldfinch - 2
SPECIES: 19
TOTAL BIRDS: 67
11/22/06 - 1240pm-125pm
C & O Canal National Historical Park & Trail "Paw Paw
Tunnel - from lot to one end of tunnel & back" & along
Rt 51, Uhl Hwy (Rt. 51), Oldtown, Allegany Co., MD
WEATHER: PC, 43-45 degrees, NNE 6 mph
Red-bellied Woodpecker - 2
Downy Woodpecker - 1
Hairy Woodpecker - 1
Pileated Woodpecker - 1
Blue Jay - 1
American Crow - 9
Black-capped Chickadee - 1
Tufted Titmouse - 2
Red-breasted Nuthatch - 1
White-breasted Nuthatch - 2
Brown Creeper - 1
Carolina Wren - 1
Winter Wren - 2
Golden-crowned Kinglet - 1
Ruby-crowned Kinglet - 1
Yellow-rumped Warbler - 2
Eastern Towhee - 1
Song Sparrow - 1
White-throated Sparrow - 2
White-crowned Sparrow - 1
"Slate-colored" Junco - 15
Northern Cardinal - 4
Purple Finch - 1
SPECIES: 23
TOTAL BIRDS: 54
Kevin Graff
Jarrettsville, MD
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