Hi all,



Baltimore Bird Club's sixth in a series of weekly walks to follow the progress of Fall Migration, next walk on 10/07/08, at 830am.

09/30/08 - 8am-1130am
Cromwell Valley Park "Willow Grove Farm & Sherwood Farm" Cromwell Bridge Rd., Carney, Baltimore Co., MD

WEATHER: Haze/MC, 55-70 degrees, calm- SSE 5 mph 
LEADERS: Kevin Graff/Kristin Bramell (TNC)
OBSERVERS: 12 (4 from TNC)


Great Blue Heron - 1 (Loch Raven)
Turkey Vulture - 2
Sharp-shinned Hawk - 4
Cooper's Hawk - 1
Red-shouldered Hawk - 1 (heard by few)
Red-tailed Hawk - 3
Mourning Dove - 13
Chimney Swift - 4
Belted Kingfisher - 1 (Loch Raven)
Red-bellied Woodpecker - 7
Downy Woodpecker - 8
Northern Flicker - 7
Eastern Wood-Pewee - 1
Eastern Phoebe - 17
Blue Jay - 82 (headed SW)
American Crow - 2
Carolina Chickadee - 10
Tufted Titmouse - 3
White-breasted Nuthatch - 5
Carolina Wren - 4
House Wren - 4 (seen/heard by one observer)
Eastern Bluebird - 22
American Robin - 91 (headed SE)
Gray Catbird - 1
Northern Mockingbird - 3
European Starling - 21
Nashville Warbler - 3
Yellow-rumped Warbler - 1
Black-throated Green Warbler - 1
Palm Warbler - 1 (western)
American Redstart - 1
Ovenbird - 1 (seen by one observer)
Common Yellowthroat - 1 (seen by one observer)
Eastern Towhee - 1
Chipping Sparrow - 11
Field Sparrow - 1 (seen by one observer)
Song Sparrow - 1
Swamp Sparrow - 1
Northern Cardinal - 9
Indigo Bunting - 3
Red-winged Blackbird - 6 (flyover SE)
Common Grackle - 2
Brown-headed Cowbird - 11
House Finch - 31
American Goldfinch - 33
House Sparrow - 1 (seen by one observer)
SPECIES: 46
TOTAL BIRDS: 438

MAMMALS
Gray Squirrel - 18

BUTTERFLIES
Cabbage White - 4
Common Buckeye - 2
Monarch - 6 (high flying headed SW)

DRAGONFLIES
Common Green Darner - 8


     Kevin Graff
     Jarrettsville, MD & West Ocean City, MD