Hi all,



09/17/08 - 830am-6pm
Cromwell Valley Park HawkWatch On The Hill, Cromwell Bridge Rd., Carney, Baltimore Co., MD

WEATHER: MC/PC, 59-73 degrees, W 4 mph- W 7 mph
OBSERVERS: 9

Canada Goose - 21 (two flocks headed ESE)
Double-crested Cormorant - 1 (headed to Loch Raven)
Great Blue Heron - 3 (headed WSW)
Great Egret - 1 (headed SE in distance)
Black Vulture - 4
Turkey Vulture - 10
Osprey - 18 (migrants)
Bald Eagle - 4 (3 migrants, 1 local)
Northern Harrier - 1 (migrants)
Sharp-shinned Hawk - 34 (migrants)
Cooper's Hawk - 4 (migrants)
Red-shouldered Hawk - 1 (local)
Broad-winged Hawk - 1019 (migrants)
Red-tailed Hawk - 6 (local)
American Kestrel - 9 (migrants)
Merlin - 1 (migrants)
Ring-billed Gull - 16 (to and from Loch Raven all day)
Rock Pigeon - 5
Mourning Dove - 8
Chimney Swift - 163
Ruby-throated Hummingbird - 1 (headed S in a hurry)
Belted Kingfisher - 1
Red-bellied Woodpecker - 1
Northern Flicker - 3
Eastern Wood-Pewee - 1
Eastern Phoebe - 1
Blue Jay - 192 (headed SW)
American Crow - 7
Carolina Chickadee - 1
Eastern Bluebird - 8
American Robin - 59 (few headed SEE)
Gray Catbird - 1
Northern Mockingbird - 3
Brown Thrasher - 1
European Starling - 69
Cedar Waxwing - 54 (several small flocks headed SE & SW)
Northern Parula - 1
Black-throated Blue Warbler - 1 (female, flyby)
Black-throated Green Warbler - 1
American Redstart - 1
Common Yellowthroat - 1
Chipping Sparrow - 9
Northern Cardinal - 2
Rose-breasted Grosbeak - 1 (flyby)
Indigo Bunting - 2 (females, along organic-fenced in area)
House Finch - 28 (several headed SW)
American Goldfinch - 29
SPECIES: 47
TOTAL BIRDS: 1808

MAMMALS
Eastern Cottontail - 1
Gray Squirrel - 8

BUTTERFLIES
Cabbage White - 4
Meadow Fritillary - 1
Common Buckeye - 1
Monarch - 429 (high flying, headed SW)

DRAGONFLIES
Common Green Darner - 11
Black Saddlebags - 19
Wandering Glider - 11


    Kevin Graff
    Jarrettsville, MD & West Ocean City, MD