Hi all,




Baltimore Bird Club's fifth in a series of weekly walks to follow the progress of Fall Migration, next walk on 09/30/08, at 830am.

09/23/08 - 8am-12pm
Cromwell Valley Park "Willow Grove Farm & Sherwood Farm" Cromwell Bridge Rd., Carney, Baltimore Co., MD

WEATHER: Fair/PC, 60-68 degrees, NNE 10 mph- ENE 11 mph
LEADER: Dot Gustafson
OBSERVERS: 5

SNOW GOOSE - 8 (headed SW at 952am, seen by all)
Canada Goose - 86 (flock of 5, 21, 42, 10, 8 headed S & SSE)
Great Blue Heron - 1 (Loch Raven, on way out)
Great Egret - 1 (flyby E)
Black Vulture - 6
Turkey Vulture - 11
Osprey - 3 (migrants)
Bald Eagle - 1 (after others left, at hawkwatch 1130am-12pm)
Northern Harrier - 2 (Jim M only at hawkwatch)
Sharp-shinned Hawk - 12 (migrants)
Coopers Hawk - 1 (local)
Red-shouldered Hawk - 1 (heard calling)
Broad-winged Hawk - 14 (migrants)
Red-tailed Hawk - 3 (local)
American Kestrel - 2 (one migrants)
Ring-billed Gull - 1 (to Loch Raven)
Caspian Tern - 1 (same as above)
Rock Pigeon - 1
Mourning Dove - 8
Chimney Swift - 10
Belted Kingfisher - 1 (seen by one at Loch Raven before walk)
Red-bellied Woodpecker - 2
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker - 1 
Downy Woodpecker - 3
Northern Flicker - 4
Eastern Wood-Pewee - 3
Eastern Phoebe - 2
Red-eyed Vireo - 4
Blue Jay - 194 (headed SWW)
American Crow - 1
Tree Swallow - 6 (headed SE)
Carolina Chickadee - 12
Tufted Titmouse - 3
White-breasted Nuthatch - 2
Carolina Wren - 2
House Wren - 2
Eastern Bluebird - 8
Swainson's Thrush - 1
American Robin - 168 (headed ESE)
Gray Catbird - 2
Northern Mockingbird - 2
Brown Thrasher - 2
European Starling - 13
Cedar Waxwing - 15 (headed SWW)
Northern Parula - 1
Magnolia Warbler - 3
Black-throated Blue Warbler - 1
Black-throated Green Warbler - 1
Palm Warbler - 4 (1 yellow, 3 western)
Black-and-white Warbler - 2
American Redstart - 5
Common Yellowthroat - 7
Chipping Sparrow - 6
Song Sparrow - 1
Swamp Sparrow - 2
Northern Cardinal - 5
Rose-breasted Grosbeak - 1
Common Grackle - 1
House Finch - 18
American Goldfinch - 45
SPECIES: 60
TOTAL BIRDS: 729

MAMMALS
Gray Squirrel - 11

BUTTERFLIES
Cabbage White - 4
Orange Sulphur - 2
Clouded/Orange Sulphur - 1 (female white form)
Common Buckeye - 1
Monarch - 11 (high flying, headed SW)
Northern Cloudywing - 1 (worn)
Least Skipper - 1
Sachem - 1

DRAGONFLIES
Common Green Darner - 3
Black Saddlebags - 2
Wandering Glider - 1


    Kevin Graff
    Jarrettsville, MD & West Ocean City, MD