Hi all,


   Passerines flight in woods are slow but enjoying
good # of jays and flickers. Best bird was a Cape May
Warbler in first patch of woods before going out in
the open on a curve to the left. It was feeding w/
Nashville, Magnolia and Black-throated Green Warblers.

09/24/07 - 7am-12pm
Elk Neck State Park "Turkey Point" Turkey Point Rd.,
North East, Cecil Co., MD

WEATHER: Sunny, 51-79 degrees, calm- E 5 mph
OBSERVERS: William Collins, Mary Jo Collins, Charlie 
           Gant, Kevin Graff

Canada Goose - 4
Double-crested Cormorant - 5
Turkey Vulture - 9
Osprey - 2 (migrants)
Bald Eagle - 4 (1 migrants)
Northern Harrier - 1 (migrants)
Sharp-shinned Hawk - 54 (53 migrants)
Cooper's Hawk - 5 (migrants)
Red-shouldered Hawk - 1 (migrants)
Broad-winged Hawk - 3 (migrants)
Red-tailed Hawk - 1 (migrants)
American Kestrel - 1 (migrants)
Laughing Gull - 4
Great Black-backed Gull - 3
Mourning Dove - 2
Great Horned Owl - 1 (across Rt 272N, 1216pm)
Chimney Swift - 22
Ruby-throated Hummingbird - 1
Red-headed Woodpecker - 1
Red-bellied Woodpecker - 4
Downy Woodpecker - 2
Northern Flicker - 47
Eastern Wood-Pewee - 2
White-eyed Vireo - 1
Red-eyed Vireo - 9
Blue Jay - 534
Red-breasted Nuthatch - 5
White-breasted Nuthatch - 1
Carolina Wren - 2
House Wren - 1
Veery - 1
American Robin - 8
Gray Catbird - 4
Northern Mockingbird - 1
Cedar Waxwing - 34
Nashville Warbler - 2
Northern Parula - 2
Magnolia Warbler - 3
Cape May Warbler - 1
Black-throated Green Warbler - 2
Blackpoll Warbler - 1
Black-and-white Warbler - 2
American Redstart - 1
Song Sparrow - 1
Northern Cardinal - 6
Rose-breasted Grosbeak - 1
Indigo Bunting - 2
Bobolink - 7 
Red-winged Blackbird - 2
House Finch - 4
Purple Finch - 1
American Goldfinch - 11
SPECIES: 52
TOTAL BIRDS: 829

MAMMALS
Gray Squirrel - 15
White-tailed Deer - 3

AMPHIBIANS
Green Frog - 1 (young)

BUTTERFLIES
Eastern Tiger Swallowtail - 5
Zebra Swallowtail - 6
Spicebush Swallowtail - 2
Cabbage White - 5
Orange Sulphur - 9
Gray Hairstreak - 3
Eastern Tailed Blue - 8
Variegated Fritillary - 5
Question Mark - 1
Painted Lady - 1
Common Buckeye - 4
Monarch - 49
Silver-spotted Skipper - 5
Peck's Skipper - 5
Sachem - 18
Zabulon Skipper - 3

DRAGONFLIES
Common Green Darner - 1
Wanderling Glider - 3
Black Saddlebags - 4


    Kevin Graff
    Jarrettsville, MD & West Ocean City, MD
    




       
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