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SE Baltimore County, 05/19/07

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Kevin Graff

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Kevin Graff

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Mon, 21 May 2007 04:39:14 -0700

Hi all,


Sorry I'm late, had to deal with yard work all over 3
acres till late. 

05/19/07 - 8am-820am (715-720 along road at bridge)
Francis Scott Key Memorial Bridge (Patapsco River/Bear
Creek Area) & MTA property/BGE property at Sollers
Point, FSK Mem Bridge (I-695)/Broening Hwy, Dundalk,
Baltimore Co., MD 

WEATHER: Sunny, 54-56 degrees, WNW 11 mph- WNW 8 mph
 
Mallard - 2
Double-crested Cormorant - 16
Great Blue Heron - 1 (headed NE from Ft Carroll)
Snowy Egret - 1 (pond at MTA, private area)
Cattle Egret - 3 (headed NE from Ft Carroll)
Black-crowned Night Heron - 1 (head NW from Ft
Carroll)
Turkey Vulture - 3 (coming in from the S)
MISSISSIPPI KITE - 1 (sub-adult)
Red-shouldered Hawk - 1
Ring-billed Gull - 6
Herring Gull - 6
Great Black-backed Gull - 8
Least Tern - 2
Rock Pigeon - 8
Mourning Dove - 2
Tree Swallow - 1
Barn Swallow - 3
Gray Catbird - 2
Northern Mockingbird - 2
European Starling - 16
Common Yellowthroat - 1
Song Sparrow - 1
Swamp Sparrow - 1
Northern Cardinal - 1
Indigo Bunting - 1
Red-winged Blackbird - 10
Common Grackle - 6
Brown-headed Cowbird - 1
American Goldfinch - 1
House Sparrow - 5
SPECIES: 30
TOTAL BIRDS: 113

BUTTERFLIES
Red-spotted Purple - 1

05/19/07 - 845am-9am
Bethlehem Steel Corp Property "Oxygen Pond" Reservoir
RD./Peninsula Expwy, Sparrows Point, Baltimore Co., MD

WEATHER: Sunny, 57-59 degrees, WNW 9 mph

Canada Goose - 3
Mallard - 3
Pied-billed Grebe - 1
Great Blue Heron - 2
Great Egret - 4 (one carry nest material)
Osprey - 2
Ring-billed Gull - 4
Rock Pigeon - 5
Mourning Dove - 1
Downy Woodpecker - 1
Red-eyed Vireo - 1
American Crow - 2
Tree Swallow - 1
Barn Swallow - 6
European Starling - 7
Blackpoll Warbler - 1
Northern Cardinal - 1
Red-winged Blackbird - 2
Common Grackle - 3
House Sparrow - 1
SPECIES: 20
TOTAL BIRDS: 51

BUTTERFLIES
Juvenal's Duskywing - 1

05/19/07 - 910am-10am
Community of Chesapeake Terrace at Old Road Bay, Lodge
Farm Rd./Bay Front Rd., Edgemere, Baltimore Co., MD

WEATHER: Sunny, 59-61 degrees, NW 9 mph- W 12 mph

Mallard - 1 (drake)
Lesser Scaup - 1 (drake)
Double-crested Cormorant - 1
Great Blue Heron - 2 (flyby)
Cattle Egret - 1
Osprey - 9
Herring Gull - 6 (some at marina)
Great Black-backed Gull - 1
Least Tern - 1
Rock Pigeon - 2
Mourning Dove - 10
Chimney Swift - 1
Eastern Wood-Pewee - 1 (woods across creek from
marina)
Eastern Kingbird - 2
Blue Jay - 1
Fish Crow - 1
Northern Rough-winged Swallow - 1
Bank Swallow - 2
Barn Swallow - 8
Carolina Chickadee - 1
American Robin - 29
Gray Catbird - 1
Northern Mockingbird - 4
European Starling - 11
Yellow Warbler - 1
Common Yellowthroat - 1
Savannah Sparrow - 1
Song Sparrow - 1
Northern Cardinal - 2
Red-winged Blackbird - 6
Common Grackle - 20
House Finch - 6
American Goldfinch - 2
House Sparrow - 8
SPECIES: 34
TOTAL BIRDS: 146

MAMMALS
Gray Squirrel - 16

BUTTERFLIES
Eastern Tiger Swallowtail - 2
Black Swallowtail - 1
Checkered White - 1
Orange Sulphur - 1
Eastern Tailed Blue - 1 



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




       
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