Hi all,



Baltimore Bird Club's 1st in a series of weekly walks to follow the progress of Fall Migration/Winter Arrival, next walk on 11/11/08, at 820am. Check with me to make sure the trip is on. We may change at last minutes to go elsewhere.


11/04/08 - 830am-1225pm
Loch Raven Reservoir "Loch Raven Skeet & Trap Center" Dulaney Valley Rd., E of Stone Hill Rd., Phoenix, Baltimore Co., MD

WEATHER: Overcast/Light drizzle, 55-57 degrees, NE 6 mph- E 10 mph
OBSERVERS: 4

Canada Goose - 94
Mute Swan - 4
Gadwall - 26
American Wigeon - 1
American Black Duck - 8
Mallard - 10
Ring-necked Duck - 10
Bufflehead - 2
Pied-billed Grebe - 19
Great Blue Heron - 2
Black Vulture - 29
Turkey Vulture - 6
Osprey - 1
Bald Eagle - 2
Northern Harrier - 2
Sharp-shinned Hawk - 1
Red-shouldered Hawk - 1
Red-tailed Hawk - 2
Ring-billed Gull - 85
Mourning Dove - 1
Belted Kingfisher - 1
Red-bellied Woodpecker - 5
Downy Woodpecker - 4
Hairy Woodpecker - 1 
Northern Flicker - 4
Pileated Woodpecker - 1 (heard only, Paul N, John L..)
Blue Jay - 19
American Crow - 20
Fish Crow - 4
Carolina Chickadee - 13
Tufted Titmouse - 15
Red-breasted Nuthatch - 1
Carolina Wren - 4
Winter Wren - 1
Golden-crowned Kinglet - 1
Ruby-crowned Kinglet - 1
Eastern Bluebird - 48
American Robin - 92
Northern Mockingbird - 1
European Starling - 151
Cedar Waxwing - 8
Yellow-rumped Warbler - 10
Chipping Sparrow - 17
Field Sparrow - 2
Song Sparrow - 36
Swamp Sparrow - 1
White-throated Sparrow - 126
"Slate-colored" Junco - 13
Northern Cardinal - 12
Rusty Blackbird - 114 (3 flocks - 47, 8, 59)
Common Grackle - 4
House Finch - 1
Pine Siskin - 1 
American Goldfinch - 4
SPECIES: 54
TOTAL BIRDS: 1042

MAMMALS
Gray Squirrel - 2
White-tailed Deer - 20


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