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Montgomery, D.C., Baltimore, 03/28/07

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Kevin Graff

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Kevin Graff

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Thu, 29 Mar 2007 16:30:46 -0700

Hi all,


   
        Well. my email system is still down and haven't been fixed yet. I've been posting full reports and sending emails from our local library today. 
  
 
  03/28/07 - 7am-720am
  #2 Bridge, and unknown named cove along Dulaney Valley Rd near Bosley Rd traffic light, Dulaney Valley Rd., Phoenix, Baltimore Co., MD
   
  WEATHER: Fair/Sunny, 62-60 degrees, calm
   
  Canada Goose - 2
  Ring-necked Duck - 7 (6 drakes, 1 hen, w/ coots at cove)
  Bufflehead - 4 (1 drake, 3 hens)
  Common Merganser - 3 (all drakes)
  Pied-billed Grebe - 6 (#2 bridge)
  Horned Grebe - 1 (#2 bridge)
  Red-necked Grebe - 1 (#2 bridge)
Bald Eagle - 1 (adult)
  Red-tailed Hawk - 1
  American Coot - 338 (at cove near Bosley Rd)
  Ring-billed Gull - 8
  Rock Pigeon - 8
  Mourning Dove - 1
  Northern Flicker - 1
  Tufted Titmouse - 1
  Yellow-rumped Warbler - 2
  Northern Cardinal - 1
  SPECIES: 17
  TOTAL BIRDS: 378
  
03/28/07 - 910am-1040am
C & O Canal National Historical Park & Trail "Riley's Lock-Violette's Lock and downstream" Violette's Lock Rd.,  Montgomery Co., MD

WEATHER: Fair/MC, 64-68 degrees, NE 6 mph- ENE 5 mph
  
Wood Duck - 1 (drake)
  Blue-winged Teal - 1 (drake, hiding among rocks downstream from Violette's Lock)
Green-winged Teal - 6 (1 drake, 5 hens)
  Ring-necked Duck - 2 (pair)
Bufflehead - 3 (1 drake, 2 hens)
Common Merganser - 2 (hens)
Red-breasted Merganser - 1 (drake)
Pied-billed Grebe - 4
Horned Grebe - 2
Red-necked Grebe - 1
Double-crested Cormorant - 5
Great Blue Heron - 5
Black Vulture - 1
Turkey Vulture - 2
  Red-shouldered Hawk - 2
  Red-tailed Hawk - 1
Bonaparte's Gull - 10
Ring-billed Gull - 3
Herring Gull - 1
Mourning Dove - 2
Red-bellied Woodpecker - 6
Downy Woodpecker - 6
Northern Flicker - 6
  Pileated Woodpecker - 1
Eastern Phoebe - 4
Blue Jay - 1
American Crow - 2
Fish Crow - 1
Carolina Chickadee - 18
  Tufted Titmouse - 9
  White-breasted Nutahtch - 3
  Carolina Wren - 2
  Golden-crowned Kinglet - 2
Eastern Bluebird - 3
American Robin - 3
Yellow-rumped Warbler - 32
Pine Warbler - 3
Song Sparrow - 14
White-throated Sparrow - 5
"Slate-colored" Junco - 24
Northern Cardinal - 17
Red-winged Blackbird - 1
Common Grackle - 2
Brown-headed Cowbird - 3
SPECIES: 44
TOTAL BIRDS: 223

MAMMALS
Gray Squirrel - 6

AMPHIBIANS
American Toad - 57 (males doing trill calling, only 22 females there)
  
BUTTERFLIES
  Cabbage White - 5
  Orange Sulphur - 1
  
03/28/07 - 1115am-1230pm
East Potomac Park, Ohio Dr., Hains Point section of Washington, D.C.

WEATHER: MC, 64-71 degrees, ENE 12 mph- NNE 11 mph

Canada Goose - 2
Mallard - 38
Bufflehead - 1
Horned Grebe - 1
Double-crested Cormorant - 5
  Osprey - 1
  Peregrine Falcon - 1
American Coot - 2
Bonaparte's Gull - 1
Ring-billed Gull - 161
Herring Gull - 17
  Lesser Black-backed Gull - 1 (adult)
Great Black-backed Gull - 18
Forster's Tern - 1
Rock Pigeon - 16
Mourning Dove - 1
Downy Woodpecker - 1 (Canal Rd in D.C. at traffic light)
American Crow - 9
Tree Swallow - 2 (Canal Rd in D.C. at traffic light)
Northern Rough-winged Swallow - 1 (same as above)
Eastern Bluebird - 1 (golf course)
American Robin - 2
Northern Mockingbird - 1
Brown Thrasher - 1
European Starling - 64
Pine Warbler - 1
  Vesper Sparrow - 1 (near edge of point at fence line)
  Song Sparrow - 1
  Swamp Sparrow - 1
  White-throated Sparrow - 2
Northern Cardinal - 2
Red-winged Blackbird - 2
Common Grackle - 2
Brown-headed Cowbird - 8
House Sparrow - 3
SPECIES: 35 (highest ever for me at the point area, I thinks??)
TOTAL BIRDS: 351

MAMMALS
Gray Squirrel - 5

03/28/07 - 150pm-230pm
Diamond Point Rd Flats, Diamond Point Rd.  Eastview, Baltimore Co., MD

WEATHER: Sunny, 66-69 degrees, N 4 mph- N 7 mph

Mallard - 2
  Pied-billed Grebe - 1
Great Blue Heron - 1
Turkey Vulture - 1
  Bald Eagle - 1
Killdeer - 1
Little Gull - 1 (adult)
Bonaparte's Gull - 465
Ring-billed Gull - 154
Herring Gull - 64
Great Black-backed Gull - 59
  Forster's Tern - 1
Rock Pigeon - 5
Mourning Dove - 2
  Tree Swallow - 3
  White-throated Sparrow - 1
  "Slate-colored" Junco - 1
  Northern Cardinal - 1
House Sparrow - 1
SPECIES: 18
TOTAL BIRDS: 765

MAMMALS
  Gray Squirrel - 3
   
  
           Kevin Graff
           Jarrettsville, MD & West O.C., MD
           



 
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