Place: Cromwell Valley Nature Center
Date: 10/13/2007
Time: 7:30 - 12:00 noon
I arrived around dawn to find a light frost on some of the grass.
I was hoping that the recent cool front had brought in good numbers of
sparrows, and I was not disappointed. In particular, I had exquisite
views of
several groups of White-crowned Sparrows.
Selected species are listed below
1 ... Cooper's Hawk
1 ... Red-Tailed Hawk
4 ... Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
4 ... Easter Phoebe
x ... Carolina Chickadee
x ... Tufted Titmouse
x ... White-breasted Nuthatch
x ... Carolina Wren
3 ... House Wren
5 ... Winter Wren
16 ... Ruby-crowned Kinglet
x ... Eastern Bluebird
x ... American Robin
x ... Gray Catbird
6 ... Brown Thrasher
x ... N. Mockingbird
x ... Cedar waxwing
x ... Starling
19 ... Yellow-rumped Warbler
6 ... Palm Warbler (4 yellow)
5 ... Yellowthroat
1 ... Blue Grosebeak (first year)
5 ... Eastern Towhee
108 ... Chipping Sparrow
2 ... Field Sparrow
17 ... Song Sparrow
11 ... Swamp Sparrow
36 ... White-throated Sparrow
12 ... White-crowned Sparrow (5 imm.)
3 ... Dark-eyed Junco
x ... House Finch
x ... American Goldfinch
x ... House Sparrow
Good Birding!
Taylor McLean
Towson, MD
Balto. Co.
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