Hi all,
 

 
Baltimore Bird Club's second in a series of weekly walks to follow the progress of Fall Migration, next walk on 09/09/08, at 830am.
 
09/02/08 - 8am-12pm
Cromwell Valley Park "Willow Grove Farm & Sherwood Farm" Cromwell Bridge Rd., Carney, Baltimore Co., MD
 
WEATHER: Sunny, 64-82 degrees, calm- variable 6 mph
LEADER: Kevin Graff (filling in for someone)
OBSERVERS: 9
 
Double-crested Cormorant - 4
Great Blue Heron - 1
Black Vulture - 1
Turkey Vulture - 5
Sharp-shinned Hawk - 1
Red-tailed Hawk - 2
Ring-billed Gull - 3
Rock Pigeon - 2
Mourning Dove - 8
Chimney Swift - 2
Ruby-throated Hummingbird - 3
Belted Kingfisher - 3
Red-bellied Woodpecker - 2
Downy Woodpecker - 3
Northern Flicker - 2
OLIVE-SIDED FLYCATCHER - 1 (seen by few in short time)
Eastern Wood-Pewee - 2
Acadian Flycatcher - 1
Eastern Phoebe - 1
Empidonax flycatcher sp. - 4
White-eyed Vireo - 1
Warbling Vireo - 3
PHILADELPHIA VIREO - 1
Red-eyed Vireo - 11
Blue Jay - 16
American Crow - 5
Fish Crow - 4 (single flock calling headed W)
Carolina Chickadee - 15
Tufted Titmouse - 9
White-breasted Nuthatch - 3
Carolina Wren - 3
House Wren - 3
Eastern Bluebird - 13
American Robin - 6
Gray Catbird - 3
Northern Mockingbird - 2
European Starling - 8
Cedar Waxwing - 1 (flyby)
Chestnut-sided Warbler - 3
Magnolia Warbler - 1 (Debbie?)
Black-throated Green Warbler - 1 (Debbie/John)
Pine Warbler - 1 (Kevin/John)
Black-and-white Warbler - 3
American Redstart - 4
Ovenbird - 1
Common Yellowthroat - 1 (Debbie/Kevin)
Hooded Warbler - 1
Eastern Towhee - 1
Chipping Sparrow - 11
Northern Cardinal - 6
House Finch - 9
American Goldfinch - 24 (several fledged youngs)
House Sparrow - 1
SPECIES: 52
TOTAL BIRDS: 226

MAMMALS
Gray Squirrel - 15
Muskrat - 1

BUTTERFLIES
Eastern Tiger Swallowtail - 9
Spichbush Swallowtail - 2
Cabbage White - 8
Orange Sulphur - 2
Red-banded Hairstreak - 1
Gray Hairstreak - 1
Summer Azure - 2 
Pearl Crescent - 3
Common Buckeye - 3
Red Admiral - 1 (flyover)
Monarch - 10 (9 adults, 1 caterpillar)
Horace's Duskywing - 1
Wild Indigo Duskywing - 2
Common Checkered Skipper - 1 
Least Skipper - 1
Crossline Skipper - 1
Sachem - 8 (quite few more skippers sp.)
Zabulon Skipper - 1

DRAGONFLIES
Common Green Darner - 2
Black Saddlebags - 5
Halloween Pennant - 1


    Kevin Graff
    Jarrettsville, MD & West Ocean City, MD