Hi all,



   Really a nice spot for birds and it's very birdy too. I wish I can stay longer than 2 hrs but had to get back to Baltimore to prepare for 
firefighter funeral later that morning. 


10/20/08 - 730am-930am
Elkhorn Garden Plot, Oakland Mill Rd., Columbia, Howard Co., MD

WEATHER: Sunny, 32-38 degrees, calm- WSW 5 mph

Canada Goose - 18 (single flock headed SW)
Cooper's Hawk - 1
Red-tailed Hawk - 1
Peregrine Falcon - 1 (kept going south while mobbed by flock of starlings)
Ring-billed Gull - 7 (flyby)
Rock Pigeon - 1
Mourning Dove - 1
Red-bellied Woodpecker - 2
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker - 1
Downy Woodpecker - 3
Eastern Phoebe - 1
Blue Jay - 6
American Crow - 5 
Carolina Chickadee - 8
White-breasted Nuthatch - 1
Carolina Wren - 1
Winter Wren - 1
Ruby-crowned Kinglet - 2
Hermit Thrush - 1
American Robin - 377
Gray Catbird - 1
Northern Mockingbird - 3
European Starling - 21 (mobbed falcon and left)
Yellow-rumped Warbler - 11
Palm Warbler - 2 (yellow & western)
Eastern Towhee - 3
Field Sparrow - 1
Savannah Sparrow - 1
Song Sparrow - 39
Lincoln's Sparrow - 1
Swamp Sparrow - 2
White-throated Sparrow - 38
White-crowned Sparrow - 1
"Slate-colored" Junco - 11
Northern Cardinal - 16
Red-winged Blackbird - 3
House Finch - 1
Pine Siskin - 2 (flyover headed S)
American Goldfinch - 15
House Sparrow - 1
SPECIES: 40
TOTAL BIRDS: 612

MAMMALS
Gray Squirrel - 5

BUTTERFLIES
Orange Sulphur - 1


      Kevin Graff
      Jarrettsville, MD & West O.C., MD
      



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