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catching up on Baltimore birds, March 2008

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Kevin Graff

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Kevin Graff

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Thu, 6 Mar 2008 15:35:12 -0800

Hi all,



03/03/08 - 10am-1215pm
Southwest Area Park, Park Dr., Brooklyn-Curtis Bay, 
Baltimore Co., MD   

WEATHER: MC/PC, 51-62 degrees, SSW 9 mph- SSW 10 mph

Canada Goose - 2
Bufflehead - 1
Ring-necked Pheasant - 1 (took two hrs to find)
Black Vulture - 2
Turkey Vulture - 3
Cooper's Hawk - 1
Red-shouldered Hawk - 1
Red-tailed Hawk - 2
Killdeer - 1
Ring-billed Gull - 8
Herring Gull - 1
Rock Pigeon - 7
Mourning Dove - 1
Blue Jay - 1
American Crow - 56
Fish Crow - 3
crow sp - 16
Carolina Wren - 1
American Robin - 2
Northern Mockingbird - 1
European Starling - 6
Savannah Sparrow - 3
Chipping Sparrow - 1
Song Sparrow - 12
White-throated Sparrow - 1
Northern Cardinal - 2
Red-winged Blackbird - 3
Common Grackle - 6
House Sparrow - 2
SPECIES: 28
TOTAL BIRDS: 147

MAMMALS
Eastern Cottontail - 1
Gray Squirrel - 2

03/04/08 - 835am-930am
Loch Raven Reservoir "#1 bridge/Morgan Mill" Loch
Raven Dr./Morgan Mill Rd., Glen Arm, Baltimore Co., MD

WEATHER: Overcast, 60-61 degrees, SWW 12 mph- SWW 13
mph

Canada Goose - 96
Mute Swan - 2
Tundra Swan - 43 (headed N in distance and way up)
American Wigeon - 9
American Black Duck - 2
Mallard - 19
Ring-necked Duck - 7
Bufflehead - 5
Hooded Merganser - 13
Common Merganser - 238
Pied-billed Grebe - 3
Horned Grebe - 1
Great Blue Heron - 1
Turkey Vulture - 1
Bald Eagle - 1
American Coot - 3237 (10 rafts)
Ring-billed Gull - 48
Herring Gull - 2
Mourning Dove - 2
American Crow - 1
Carolina Chickadee - 1
Tufted Titmouse - 2
White-breasted Nuthatch - 1
Golden-crowned Kinglet - 1
American Robin - 1
European Starling - 2
Song Sparrow - 1
Northern Cardinal - 2
SPECIES: 28
TOTAL BIRDS: 3742

03/04/08 - 935am-10am
Loch Raven Reservoir "#2 bridge/Dulaney Valley"
Dulaney Valley Rd., Timonium-Phoenix, Baltimore Co.,
MD

WEATHER: Overcast, 63-64 degrees, SSW 13 mph

Canada Goose - 17
Mallard - 2
Ring-necked Duck - 4
Bufflehead - 1
Common Goldeneye - 2
Hooded Merganser - 8
Common Merganser - 71
Pied-billed Grebe - 3
Turkey Vulture- 1
Ring-billed Gull - 2
Rock Pigeon - 16
Mourning Dove - 1
Red-bellied Woodpecker - 1
American Crow - 3
Carolina Chickadee - 1
American Robin - 1
White-throated Sparrow - 2
"Slate-colored" Junco - 3
Northern Cardinal - 1
SPECIES: 19
TOTAL BIRDS: 140

03/05/08 - 555pm-655pm
UMBC Catonsville Campus, Research Park Dr.,
Catonsville, Baltimore Co., MD

WEATHER: Fair/PC, 46-44 degrees, NW 11 mph- WNW 8 mph
OBSERVERS: Kevin Graff, C. Karbutus

Canada Goose - 2
Mallard - 2
American Woodcock - 3 (629pm, 631pm, 634pm)
Rock Pigeon - 4
Mourning Dove - 1
Downy Woodpecker - 1
Blue Jay - 1
American Crow - 2
Carolina Chickadee - 1
American Robin - 2
European Starling - 3
Yellow-rumped Warbler - 1
Song Sparrow - 6
Swamp Sparrow - 1
White-throated Sparrow - 2
Northern Cardinal - 1
Red-winged Blackbird - 42 (flyby)
House Finch - 2
SPECIES: 18
TOTAL BIRDS: 77



     Kevin Graff
     Jarrettsville, MD & West Ocean City, MD
     



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