Hi all,



12/18/07 - 830am-1230pm
Loch Raven Reservoir "Loch Raven Skeet & Trap Center"
Dulaney Valley Rd., E of Stone Hill Rd., Phoenix,
Baltimore Co., MD

WEATHER: PC/Fair, 27-39 degrees, W 4 mph- W 7 mph
OBSERVERS: 3
 
Canada Goose - 387
Mute Swan - 4
Gadwall - 27
American Wigeon - 46
American Black Duck - 36
Mallard - 38
Green-winged Teal - 4
Ring-necked Duck - 103
Bufflehead - 1
Hooded Merganser - 32
Common Merganser - 13 (1 drake)
Ruddy Duck - 1 
Pied-billed Grebe - 6
Horned Grebe - 1
Great Blue Heron - 1
Black Vulture - 6
Turkey Vulture - 2
Bald Eagle - 2
Sharp-shinned Hawk - 2
Red-shouldered Hawk - 1
Red-tailed Hawk - 2 (seen by one observer)
American Kestrel - 1 
Killdeer - 7
Ring-billed Gull - 13
Rock Pigeon - 5
Belted Kingfisher - 1
Red-bellied Woodpecker - 14
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker - 3
Downy Woodpecker - 10
Hairy Woodpecker - 1
Northern Flicker - 16
Pileated Woodpecker - 2 
Blue Jay - 13
American Crow - 9
Fish Crow - 5
Carolina Chickadee - 31
Tufted Titmouse - 21
Red-breasted Nuthatch - 3
White-breasted Nuthatch - 4
Carolina Wren - 8
Golden-crowned Kinglet - 2
Ruby-crowned Kinglet - 2
Eastern Bluebird - 6
American Robin - 61
Northern Mockingbird - 5 
European Starling - 57
Cedar Waxwing - 47 (two flocks)
Yellow-rumped Warbler - 2
Eastern Towhee - 2
Field Sparrow - 3
Song Sparrow - 15
White-throated Sparrow - 146
"Slate-colored" Junco - 43
Northern Cardinal - 39
Red-winged Blackbird - 119 (two flocks)
Purple Finch - 1 (female)
COMMON REDPOLL - 1 (male)
American Goldfinch - 2
SPECIES: 58 
TOTAL BIRDS: 1435

MAMMALS
Gray Squirrel - 1
White-tailed Deer - 13

If anyone plan to go to the trap club, from I-695
beltway, take exit 27 Dulaney Valley Road North, go
several miles, cross large bridge over reservoir, and
bear right immediately. Continue to first left, Stone
Hill Rd. Go about 100 yards, and then park on your
right. All cars need to park on the same side of the
road. Make sure you park on the road, not on the grass
or over the bump. The staff of Towson Country Golf
Club had left notes for a warning. 

Won't be posting Silver Spring crossbill's site due to
lack of other bird species in area. Just doves, house
finches, red-bellied, downy and flicker, geese at
nearby golf course plus other common backyard birds
and that beautiful male WW Crossbill w/ house finches.


    Kevin Graff
    Jarrettsville, MD & West Ocean City, MD
    



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