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Cylburn Arboretum, 09/30/07

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Kevin Graff

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Kevin Graff

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Sun, 30 Sep 2007 15:56:35 -0700

Hi all,



09/30/07 - 8am-12pm
Cylburn Arboretum, Greenspring Ave., Cold Spring-
Newtown section of Baltimore, MD
 
WEATHER: PC/Fair, 53-78 degrees, calm- NE 5 mph 
LEADER: No designated leader for this Self-Guided Walk
        - fifth of the series weekly birdwalk. Next 
        bird walk on 10/07/07 at 830am  
OBSERVERS: 9

Before our walk at Cylburn, John D. had a pewee, fish
crow, house wren and ruby-crowned kinglet. 

Canada Goose - 10
Mallard - 1 (stump dump)
Turkey Vulture - 4
Osprey - 2
Sharp-shinned Hawk - 3
Cooper's Hawk - 3
Broad-winged Hawk - 84 (singles & small kettles)
Red-tailed Hawk - 1 (stump dump)
Merlin - 1 (seen by one observer)
Rock Pigeon - 2 (stump dump)
Mourning Dove - 8
Chimney Swift - 8
Red-bellied Woodpecker - 3
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker - 6 (3 stump dump)
Downy Woodpecker - 2 (1 stump dump)
Hairy Woodpecker - 1 (heard)
Northern Flicker - 22
Eastern Phoebe - 4
Red-eyed Vireo - 3
Blue Jay - 172
Carolina Chickadee - 13
Tufted Titmouse - 9
Red-breasted Nuthatch - 1 (heard)
White-breasted Nuthatch - 3
Carolina Wren - 1
Golden-crowned Kinglet - 1
Swainson's Thrush - 3
American Robin - 65 (many at stump dump)
Gray Catbird - 13
Northern Mockingbird - 6 (3 stump dump)
Brown Thrasher - 1
European Starling - 86 (many at stump dump)
Northern Parula - 2
Magnolia Warbler - 1
Yellow-rumped Warbler - 1
Palm Warbler - 2 (western)
Black-and-white Warbler - 2
American Redstart - 1
Ovenbird - 1 (stump dump)
Common Yellowthroat - 2 (1 stump dump)
Scarlet Tanager - 1 (female, stump dump)
Eastern Towhee - 1 (heard)
Chipping Sparrow - 2
Song Sparrow - 1 (stump dump)
White-throated Sparrow - 1 (stump dump)
Northern Cardinal - 12
Rose-breasted Grosbeak - 1 (heard)
Red-winged Blackbird - 8
Common Grackle - 1
House Finch - 16
American Goldfinch - 9
House Sparrow - 56 (stump dump)
SPECIES: 52
TOTAL BIRDS: 663

MAMMALS
Gray Squirrel - 12

BUTTERFLIES
Cabbage White - 18
Orange Sulphur - 1
Red-banded Hairstreak - 2
Eastern Tailed Blue - 3
Variegated Fritillary - 2
Common Buckeye - 1
Monarch - 67 (most headed SW, one linger)
Silver-spotted Skipper - 6
Common Checkered Skipper - 1
Least Skipper - 1
Sachem - 14

DRAGONFLIES
Common Green Darner - 1

DAMSELFLIES
Familiar Bluet - 1 (Jones Falls)
 
***Afterward, I went down to my former hawk watch in
the city formally called Backyard HawkWatch and in 4
hrs, 719 Broadwings out of 823 hawks total***


    Kevin Graff
    Jarrettsville, MD & West Ocean City, MD
    



       
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