Hi all,



Baltimore Bird Club's ninth and last in a series of weekly walks to follow the progress of Fall Migration, next wallk in April 2009 at Lake Roland.
**We'll begin Tues weekly walks at Loch Raven Reservoir beginning on Nov
  4th and end in mid Mar 2009. Email me for more info and directions. This 
  past winter has some interesting birds including Common Redpoll, Pine
  Siskins, Rusty Blackbird, Purple Finches and few other boreal species. 


10/21/08 - 8am-1130am
Cromwell Valley Park "Willow Grove Farm & Sherwood Farm" Cromwell Bridge Rd., Carney, Baltimore Co., MD

WEATHER: MC/Fair, 42-59 degrees, WSW 5 mph- W 11 mph
LEADER: Kevin Graff
OBSERVERS: 6

Canada Goose - 2
Great Blue Heron - 1 (Loch Raven)
Black Vulture - 4
Turkey Vulture - 7
Bald Eagle - 2 (adults)
Northern Harrier - 1
Sharp-shinned Hawk - 7
Cooper's Hawk - 2
Red-tailed Hawk - 4
Ring-billed Gull - 2
Mourning Dove - 7
Belted Kingfisher - 2
Red-bellied Woodpecker - 4
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker - 2
Downy Woodpecker - 4
Hairy Woodpecker - 1
Northern Flicker - 2
Eastern Phoebe - 3
Blue Jay - 28 (few headed SW)
American Crow - 5
Carolina Chickadee - 8
Tufted Titmouse - 4
White-breasted Nuthatch - 4
Brown Creeper - 1
Carolina Wren - 2
Winter Wren - 1
Golden-crowned Kinglet - 2
Ruby-crowned Kinglet - 59
Eastern Bluebird - 38
Hermit Thrush - 1
American Robin - 284 (few headed SE, the rest busy eating berries)
Northern Mockingbird - 2
European Starling - 17
Cedar Waxwing - 1
Yellow-rumped Warbler - 52
Palm Warbler - 5 (3 western, 2 yellow)
Common Yellowthroat - 1
Eastern Towhee - 1
Chipping Sparrow - 330 (impressive # took off from weedy field)
Field Sparrow - 2
Savannah Sparrow - 1
Song Sparrow - 56
Lincoln's Sparrow - 1
Swamp Sparrow - 6
White-throated Sparrow - 35
"Slate-colored" Junco - 28
Northern Cardinal - 5
Red-winged Blackbird - 6
House Finch - 22
Pine Siskin - 1 (weedy field)
American Goldfinch - 26
SPECIES: 51
TOTAL BIRDS: 1092

MAMMALS
Gray Squirrel - 4

BUTTERFLIES
Common Buckeye - 2

MOTHS
Isabella Tiger Moth - 2 (Wooly Bear)



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


***Additional from last week trip, left out 2 wooly bear along trail; 15 black-nosed dace, 12 fall fish, 2 young smallmouth bass, 1 possible chain pickerel in one spot along stream plus many more unidentified fishes, mostly tiny ones***