Correction: That was Josh Day not Josh Gleason at Soldiers Delight today.
Sorry for the error.
Keith Eric Costley
Randallstown, Baltimore County, MD
on 10/4/08 7:36 PM, Keith Eric Costley at wrote:
> Highlights of a walk at Soldiers Delight NEA included four Common Ravens
> (finally!), a Northern Parula, 2 Black-throated Blue Warbler, 7
> Yellow-rumped Warbler, 4 Black-throated Green Warbler and 4 Palm Warbler
> (Yellow). Chipping Sparrow, Field Sparrow and Song Sparrow were also found.
>
> While standing in front of the nature center, Josh Gleason (?), Rudy Benavid
> and I spotted four dark birds soaring above a Black Vulture. I balked at
> positively IDing the birds because they were very high and continued to
> climb. Just as I was about to let them go, as I lowered my binoculars, one
> of the birds called once.
>
> Location: Soldiers Delight NEA
> Observation date: 10/4/08
> Number of species: 41
>
> Canada Goose 24
> Black Vulture 32
> Turkey Vulture 16
> Sharp-shinned Hawk 2
> Cooper's Hawk 3
> Red-tailed Hawk 1
> Mourning Dove 5
> Chimney Swift 2
> Red-bellied Woodpecker 4
> Yellow-bellied Sapsucker 1
> Downy Woodpecker 3
> Northern Flicker (Yellow-shafted) 8
> Pileated Woodpecker 1
> Eastern Wood-Pewee 1
> Eastern Phoebe 1
> Blue Jay 67
> American Crow 23
> Common Raven 4
> Carolina Chickadee 9
> Tufted Titmouse 12
> White-breasted Nuthatch 4
> Carolina Wren 2
> Eastern Bluebird 6
> American Robin 27
> Gray Catbird 2
> Northern Mockingbird 2
> Cedar Waxwing 14
> Northern Parula 1
> Black-throated Blue Warbler 2
> Yellow-rumped Warbler (Myrtle) 7
> Black-throated Green Warbler 4
> Palm Warbler (Yellow) 4
> warbler sp. 6
> Eastern Towhee 7
> Chipping Sparrow 41
> Field Sparrow 1
> Song Sparrow 1
> Northern Cardinal 1
> Red-winged Blackbird 9
> House Finch 2
> American Goldfinch 3
>
> This report was generated automatically by eBird v2(http://ebird.org)
>
> Keith Eric Costley
>
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