Hi all,



Baltimore Bird Club's 13th in a series of weekly walks to follow the progress of Winter Arrival, next walk on 2/03/08 will be at Prettyboy Reservoir, at 820am. Check with me to make sure the trip is on by Mon evening.

01/27/09 - 830am-1210pm
Loch Raven Reservoir "Loch Raven Skeet & Trap Club" Dulaney Valley Rd., E of Stone Hill Rd., Phoenix, Baltimore Co., MD

WEATHER: Light snow/flurries, 28 degrees, NE 4 mph- E 8 mph 
OBSERVERS: Kevin G., John L., Paul N., Leslie S., Joe T.

Canada Goose - 449
Mute Swan - 2
Gadwall - 8
American Wigeon - 38
American Black Duck - 16
Mallard - 15
Green-winged Teal - 2
Redhead - 82
Ring-necked Duck - 342
Bufflehead - 9
Hooded Merganser - 15
Common Merganser - 21
Pied-billed Grebe - 12
Horned Grebe - 1
Great Blue Heron - 1
Black Vulture - 1
Turkey Vulture - 2
Bald Eagle - 4
Red-tailed Hawk - 2
American Coot - 841
Ring-billed Gull - 10
Herring Gull - 1
Mourning Dove - 1
Red-bellied Woodpecker - 7
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker - 1
Downy Woodpecker - 4
Northern Flicker - 10
Pileated Woodpecker - 2
Blue Jay - 8
American Crow - 15
Fish Crow - 1 (John)
Carolina Chickadee - 32
Tufted Titmouse - 8
Red-breasted Nuthatch - 1
White-breasted Nuthatch - 6
Brown Creeper - 1
Carolina Wren - 1
Winter Wren - 1
Golden-crowned Kinglet - 1
Ruby-crowned Kinglet - 2
Eastern Bluebird - 8
Hermit Thrush - 1 
Northern Mockingbird - 4
Europesan Starling - 53
Yellow-rumped Warbler - 2
Eastern Towhee - 3
Field Sparrow - 2
Song Sparrow - 3
White-throated Sparrow - 193
"Slate-colored" Junco - 46
Northern Cardinal - 32
Red-winged Blackbird - 1
American Goldfinch - 1
SPECIES: 53
TOTAL BIRDS: 2325

MAMMALS
Gray Squirrel - 1
White-tailed Deer - 3

*****earlier, I have a young male WW Crossbill at a single norway spruce tree across street from my place before a small flock of starlings landed on it and it took off to the east. It is one of 4 spruce trees in my neighborhood, had many hundreds small pine trees all over. Later after Loch Raven walk, on Worthington Ave, east of town of Glyndon, Baltimore County, had a small flock of crossbill sp. took off as I arrive before I got out of the car. Not sure which one as it was in flight before I could id's it.  It was on long row of some kind of very tall spruce trees loaded with over 10,000+ cones.  Between town of Glyndon and Timber Knoll Rd on Worthington Ave across from small horse farm that is surrounded by forest.  Looks like more is on the way.  I know we all still waiting for Red Crossbills to show up.


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