Hi all,



Baltimore Bird Club's 2nd in a series of weekly walks to follow the progress of Fall Migration/Winter Arrival, next walk on 11/18/08, at 820am. Check with me to make sure the trip is on. We may change at last minutes to go elsewhere.


11/11/08 - 830am-12pm
Loch Raven Reservoir "Loch Raven Skeet & Trap Center" Dulaney Valley Rd., E of Stone Hill Rd., Phoenix, Baltimore Co., MD

WEATHER: Sunny/Fair, 38-49 degrees, WNW 6 mph- NW 4 mph
OBSERVERS: Joan C, Kevin G, John L, Paul N

Canada Goose - 377
Gadwall - 5
American Wigeon - 6 
American Black Duck - 14
Mallard - 3
Ring-necked Duck - 9
Bufflehead - 6
Hooded Merganser - 5
Pied-billed Grebe - 11
Double-crested Cormorant - 1
Great Blue Heron - 3
Black Vulture - 1
Turkey Vulture - 7
Bald Eagle - 4
Red-shouldered Hawk - 1 
Red-tailed Hawk - 4
Bonaparte's Gull - 1 (John had two earlier this am)
Ring-billed Gull - 53
Mourning Dove - 8
Great Horned Owl - 1
Belted Kingfisher - 2
Red-bellied Woodpecker - 4
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker - 1
Downy Woodpecker - 2
Northern Flicker - 1
Pileated Woodpecker - 2 (heard by others, 1 calling, 1 drumming)
Blue Jay - 4
American Crow - 6
Fish Crow - 2
Carolina Chickadee - 8
Tufted Titmouse - 12
Red-breasted Nuthatch - 4
White-breasted Nuthatch - 1
Brown Creeper - 4
Carolina Wren - 3
Ruby-crowned Kinglet - 2
Eastern Bluebird - 20
American Robin - 14
Northern Mockingbird - 5
European Starling - 6
Cedar Waxwing - 47
Yellow-rumped Warbler - 1
Eastern Towhee - 1
Chipping Sparrow - 2
Field Sparrow - 2
Song Sparrow - 15
Swamp Sparrow - 3
White-throated Sparrow - 98
"Slate-colored" Junco - 96
Northern Cardinal - 10
Rusty Blackbird - 1 (flyby)
Purple Finch - 2
House Finch - 13
Pine Siskin - 2 (distance flyby)
American Goldfinch - 11
SPECIES: 55
TOTAL BIRDS: 927

MAMMALS
Gray Squirrel - 1
White-tailed Deer - 8


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