Hello all.

I've been surveying the Brandon Woods-Chestnut Hill Cove-Stoney Creek Park-
Solley Road area of Pasadena for the last couple of days looking for breeding 
birds and butterflies. It's about a 4 mile route. I forget how much 'fun' this 
time of year can be until I'm tracking a warbler in foliage while being bled out 
by mosquitoes and deer flies.

Some interesting birds continue in this area, even though portions have been 
disturbed over the years. The best chunk of land in this mix is Stoney Creek 
Park, which is a large parcel of undeveloped park land just off of Solley Road 
and Nabbs Creek Road. The site contains good FIDS habitat and has some 
flooded areas that remind me of parts of the Jones Falls leading to Lake 
Roland. The other locations are more mixed in habitat. 

Here are some highlights:

Least Tern: 30+  The colony of the FILA building in the Brandon Woods 
Industrial Park is again, doing well. These birds forage over most of the local 
area.

Whippoorwill: 2   
Wood Thrush: 6+  Found in four different territories
White-eyed Vireo: 2  
Red-eyed Vireo: 2
Great-crested Flycatcher: 5  In several areas
Pine Warbler: 3  In 2 different territories
BLACK-AND-WHITE WARBLER: 1  Foraging in Stoney Creek Park
Ovenbird: 8  Stoney Creek Park
HOODED WARBLER: 2  Stoney Creek Park
KENTUCKY WARBLER: 1  On territory at Stoney Creek
Common Yellowthroat: 3  
Indigo Bunting: 6+ At least 4 territories
Blue Grosbeak: 2  Have bred at the edge of Solley by Brandon Woods for years
Scarlet Tanager: 2  Males found on 2 different territories
Orchard Orioles: 5  A real mix, with a 1st spring thrown in
Baltimore Oriole: 3  

Butterflies:

Spicebush Swallowtail: 3
Tiger Swallowtail: 3
Pipevine Swallowtail: 2
Cabbage White: 5
Orange Sulphur: 15+
Eastern Tailed-Blue: 2
Azure sp.: 2
Monarch: 4
American Lady: 2
Painted Lady: 1
Horace's Duskywing: 3
Duskywing sp.: 1
Little Glassywing: 1
Least Skipper: 2

Matt Grey
Pasadena