Hi all,



   It was a great day to be there. We ran into Frode Jacobsen at Sherwood Farm section of the park in weedy field. He had 1 Blue-headed Vireo, 2 Lincolns Sparrows, 1 Nashville Warbler, 1 Marsh Wren....  While walking and talking with him, Paul, Joanne, Frode and I flushed a meadowlark later seen by a group on path, and afterward we relocated a Marsh Wren and 3 Nashville Warblers in weedy field. The best bird of the day was a Vesper Sparrow by Paul and me after partly way with Frode in a weedy field.  


Baltimore Bird Club's seventh in a series of weekly walks to follow the progress of Fall Migration, next walk on 10/14/08, at 830am.

10/07/08 - 8am-12pm
Cromwell Valley Park "Willow Grove Farm & Sherwood Farm" Cromwell Bridge Rd., Carney, Baltimore Co., MD

WEATHER: PC/Fair, 43-59 degrees, calm- ENE 5 mph 
LEADER: Paul Noell 
OBSERVERS: 9

Canada Goose - 142 (7 flocks to SE, 2 flocks to SW)
Great Blue Heron - 1 (Loch Raven)
Black Vulture - 1
Turkey Vulture - 3
Sharp-shinned Hawk - 2
Cooper's Hawk - 1
Red-tailed Hawk - 5
Merlin - 1
Mourning Dove - 4
Chimney Swift - 2
Belted Kingfisher - 1
Red-bellied Woodpecker - 2
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker - 2
Downy Woodpecker - 6
Northern Flicker - 17
Pileated Woodpecker - 1 (heard only)
Eastern Phoebe - 6
BLUE-HEADED VIREO - 1 (Frode only)
Blue Jay - 56 (many headed SW)
American Crow - 3
Carolina Chickadee - 7
Tufted Titmouse - 8
White-breasted Nuthatch - 4
Carolina Wren - 4
House Wren - 1
Winter Wren - 2
Marsh Wren - 1 (Paul, Kevin, first seen earlier by Frode)
Golden-crowned Kinglet - 4
Ruby-crowned Kinglet - 35
Eastern Bluebird - 6
American Robin - 55 (many headed ESE)
Gray Catbird - 1
Northern Mockingbird - 2
European Starling - 11
Cedar Waxwing - 1 (flyby near end of trip)
Nashville Warbler - 4 (3 Paul, Kevin, Joanne)
Yellow-rumped Warbler 4
Black-throated Green Warbler - 1
Palm Warbler - 4 (3 yellow, 1 western)
Common Yellowthroat - 8 
Eastern Towhee - 1
Chipping Sparrow - 18
Vesper Sparrow - 1 (Paul, Kevin)
Song Sparrow - 36
LINCOLN'S SPARROW - 2 (Frode only)
Swamp Sparrow - 5
White-throated Sparrow - 4
"Slate-colored" Junco - 1 (John, Joan)
Northern Cardinal - 8
Red-winged Blackbird - 8 (headed SE)
Eastern Meadowlark - 1
House Finch - 13
American Goldfinch - 18
SPECIES: 53
TOTAL BIRDS: 536

MAMMALS
Gray Squirrel - 16

BUTTERFLIES
Cabbage White - 3
Orange Sulphur - 5
Common Buckeye - 2 (Debbie+)
Pearl Crescent - 1 (John)
Monarch - 1 (high flying headed SW)

DRAGONFLIES
Common Green Darner - 1


     Kevin Graff
     Jarrettsville, MD & West Ocean City, MD