Hi all,



Baltimore Bird Club's 20th in a series of weekly walks to follow the progress of early Spring Arrival, last walk on 3/24/08 will be at Prettyboy Reservoir at a different trail, at 820am. Check with me to make sure the trip is on by Mon evening.


03/17/09 - 820am-1130am
Loch Raven Reservoir "Loch Raven Skeet & Trap Club" Dulaney Valley Rd., E of Stone Hill Rd., Phoenix, Baltimore Co., MD

WEATHER: Overcast/MC, 41-45 degrees, N 6 mph- ENE 5 mph
OBSERVERS: Jeanne B, Kevin G, Paul N, Joann P, Debbie T

Canada Goose - 128 
Gadwall - 2
American Wigeon - 24 
American Black Duck - 3
Mallard - 2
Ring-necked Duck - 40
Lesser Scaup - 5
Bufflehead - 19
Hooded Merganser - 4
Common Merganser - 28 (some at #1 bridge earlier)
Pied-billed Grebe - 1
Horned Grebe - 6
Red-necked Grebe - 1
Black Vulture - 1
Turkey Vulture - 2
Sharp-shinned Hawk - 1
Cooper's Hawk - 1
American Coot - 546
Killdeer - 2 
Ring-billed Gull - 16 (#1 bridge)
Mourning Dove - 3
Great Horned Owl - 1 (mobbed by 20+ crows)
Belted Kingfisher - 1
Red-bellied Woodpecker - 2
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker - 1
Downy Woodpecker - 4
Hairy Woodpecker - 1
Pileated Woodpecker - 1
Blue Jay - 4
American Crow - 31
Carolina Chickadee - 15
Tufted Titmouse - 7
Red-breasted Nuthatch - 2
White-breasted Nuthatch - 3
Carolina Wren - 3
Golden-crowned Kinglet - 1
Eastern Bluebird - 1
American Robin - 1
Northern Mockingbird - 3
European Starling - 1
Pine Warbler - 1
Eastern Towhee - 4
Field Sparrow - 9
Song Sparrow - 20
White-throated Sparrow - 96
"Slate-colored" Junco - 4
Northern Cardinal - 8 
Red-winged Blackbird - 3
Common Grackle - 1 (flyby)
American Goldfinch - 2
SPECIES: 50
TOTAL BIRDS: 1066

MAMMALS
Gray Squirrel - 2
White-tailed Deer - 4


    Kevin Graff
    Jarrettsville, MD & West O.C., MD (soon to Berlin, MD)