Hi all,



Sorry I'm late. Too busy with yardwork on 3 acres and
ran some medic calls on/off since Sunday afternoon. 


05/04/08 - 720am-805am
Patapsco Valley State Park "Hammonds Ferry" & Hammonds
Ferry Park-n-Ride, Hammonds Ferry Rd., Linthicum, Anne
Arundel Co., MD

WEATHER: PC, 57 degrees, calm- variable 4 mph
LEADER: Steve Sanford
OBSERVERS: 2

Wood Duck - 1 (drake, flyby)
Double-crested Cormorant - 30 (flocks of 24 & 6, NNW)
Great Blue Heron - 1 (carrying nest materials)
Ring-billed Gull - 1
Rock Pigeon - 2
Mourning Dove - 2
Chimney Swift - 2
Northern Flicker - 1
White-eyed Vireo - 1
American Crow - 1
American Robin - 2
European Starling - 4
Black-throated Blue Warbler - 1
Yellow-rumped Warbler - 2
Common Yellowthroat - 1
Northern Cardinal - 2
Red-winged Blackbird - 1
Common Grackle - 2
American Goldfinch - 1
SPECIES: 19
TOTAL BIRDS: 58

MAMMALS
Gray Squirrel - 4

05/06/07 - 830am-225pm
Patuxent Research Refuge "North Tract" Bald Eagle Dr. 
& Wildlife Loop, Ft. Meade, Anne Arundel Co., MD

WEATHER: MC/Fair, 58-69 degrees, variable 6 mph- NW 10
Same group 

Canada Goose - 3
Wood Duck - 1
Great Blue Heron - 1
Green Heron - 1
Black Vulture - 2
Turkey Vulture - 2
Osprey - 1
Bald Eagle - 2
Northern Harrier - 1
Cooper's Hawk - 1
Red-tailed Hawk - 5
American Coot - 1 (Merganser Pond)
Killdeer - 2
Solitary Sandpiper - 2
Spotted Sandpiper - 1
Mourning Dove - 5
Ruby-throated Hummingbird - 1
Red-bellied Woodpecker - 2
Eastern Wood-Pewee - 1
Eastern Phoebe - 3
Great Crested Flycatcher - 2
Eastern Kingbird - 3
White-eyed Vireo - 3
Yellow-throated Vireo - 3
Red-eyed Vireo - 5
Blue Jay - 1
American Crow - 1
Tree Swallow - 13
Northern Rough-winged Swallow - 8
Barn Swallow - 5
Carolina Chickadee - 7
Tufted Titmouse - 2
White-breasted Nuthatch - 1
Carolina Wren - 2
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher - 7
Eastern Bluebird - 5
Wood Thrush - 2
American Robin - 2
Gray Catbird - 3
Northern Mockingbird - 1
European Starling - 9
Blue-winged Warbler - 1
Northern Parula - 4
Yellow Warbler - 1
Magnolia Warbler - 1
Yellow-rumped Warbler - 1
Pine Warbler - 3
Prairie Warbler - 6
Black-and-white Warbler - 3
American Redstart - 12
Prothonotary Warbler - 1 (behind New Marsh Pond) 
Worm-eating Warbler - 1 (good look)
Ovenbird - 10
Common Yellowthroat - 5
Hooded Warbler - 3
Canada Warbler - 1 (female)
Yellow-breasted Chat - 3
Summer Tanager - 5 (good look at one bird)
Scarlet Tanager - 3
Eastern Towhee - 3
Chipping Sparrow - 1
Field Sparrow - 2
Savannah Sparrow - 3
Song Sparrow - 1
Northern Cardinal - 5
Rose-breasted Grosbeak - 1 (female)
Blue Grosbeak - 1
Indigo Bunting - 5
Red-winged Blackbird - 18
Common Grackle - 3
Brown-headed Cowbird - 3
Orchard Oriole - 3
House Finch - 2 (at feeders)
American Goldfinch - 8
SPECIES: 74 (81 sp. total)
TOTAL BIRDS: 246

MAMMALS
Gray Squirrel - 3

REPTILES
Eastern Painted Turtle - 7
Red-bellied Turtle - 2

AMPHIBIANS
Northern Cricket Frog - 8
Green Frog - 3

BUTTERFLIES
Eastern Tiger Swallowtail - 12
Zebra Swallowtail - 20
Black Swallowtail - 1
Cabbage White - 8
Falcate Orangetip - 1
Orange Sulphur - 9
Spring Azure - 1
Eastern Tailed Blue - 8
Pearl Crescent - 10
Mourning Cloak - 1
American Lady - 1
Painted Lady - 4
Juvenal's Duskywing - 6
Dreamy Duskywing - 1

DRAGONFLIES (there were few more unidentified)
Common Green Darner - 16
Prince Baskettail - 1
Common Whitetail - 4
Twelve-spotted Skimmer - 2
Blue Dasher - 6
Eastern Pondhawk - 35
Spot-winged Glider - 1
Black Saddlebags - 6
Carolina Saddlebags - 15

MOTHS
Lesser Maple Spanworm - 1 (caterpillar)

FISHES
Yellow Perch - 2



      Kevin Graff
      Jarrettsville, MD & West O.C., MD
      




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