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Jarrettsville yard birds & moths, 06/16/07

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Kevin Graff

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Kevin Graff

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Sun, 17 Jun 2007 18:03:18 -0700

Hi all,


   I'm in town for family cookout and birthday for the
weekend. The night before and today has a quite few
moths around out front and back porch lights. My
neighbor has cut down a dead tree and finally I get a
view of rolling country side along Born Rd, viewing
from behind our barn.


06/16/07 - 8am-8pm (on/off)
Yard birds including feeders, woods,, newly planted
corn field across street, Old Federal Hill Rd.,
Jarrettsville, Harford Co., MD

WEATHER: PC, 63-75 degrees, calm

Canada Goose - 2 (farm pond)
Great Blue Heron - 1 (flyby headed ESE before 8pm)
Turkey Vulture - 3
Cooper's Hawk - 1
Red-shouldered Hawk - 3 (1 ad and 2 imm nearby trees)
Red-tailed Hawk - 1
Killdeer - 2 (flyover headed SW before 8pm)
Mourning Dove - 5
Chimney Swift - 3
Ruby-throated Hummingbird - 1
Red-bellied Woodpecker - 2
Downy Woodpecker - 2
Eastern Wood-Pewee - 1 (flyby near Born Rd)
Eastern Phoebe - 6 (4 youngs in nest)
Eastern Kingbird - 2
Blue Jay - 3
American Crow - 4
Tree Swallow - 1
Barn Swallow - 3
Carolina Chickadee - 3
Tufted Titmouse - 4
White-breasted Nuthatch - 1
Carolina Wren - 2
House Wren - 9 (3 newly hatched, 2nd brood)
Eastern Bluebird - 15 (4 newly hatch 2nd brood)
American Robin - 3
Gray Catbird - 9 (2 youngs seen in nest)
Northern Mockingbird - 2
European Starling - 2
Cedar Waxwing - 2 (flyby)
Chipping Sparrow - 7 (nest w/ 3 eggs, 3 more nests)
Northern Cardinal - 4
Indigo Bunting - 1 (Born Rd)
Red-winged Blackbird - 2 (flyover)
Common Grackle - 4
Brown-headed Cowbird - 3
Baltimore Oriole - 1 (flyby, no nest seen in area)
House Finch - 8
American Goldfinch - 6
SPECIES: 39
TOTAL BIRDS: 134

MAMMALS
Eastern Chipmunk - 2
Gray Squirrel - 8
Eastern Cottontail - 1

BUTTERFLIES
Eastern Tiger Swallowtail - 1
Black Swallowtail - 3 (caterpillars) 
Cabbage White - 11
Silver-spotted Skipper - 1

DRAGONFLIES
Common Green Darner - 1
Twelve-spotted Skimmer - 1 (female)
Common Whitetail - 1 (male)

MOTHS (there's a quite few more out there)
Yellow-collared Slug Moth - 1
Elm Spanworm Moth - 1
Common Spring Moth - 1
Eastern Tent Caterpillar Moth - 1
American Ermine Moth - 2
White-dotted Prominent - 1
Small Bird-Dropping - 1
Yellow-based Tussock Moth Caterpillar - 1
White-marked Tussock Moth Caterpillar - 1
Gypsy Moth Caterpillar - 3 (had to destroy them)


    Kevin Graff
    West Ocean City, MD
    




       
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