Hi all,



04/09/09 - 7am-4pm
Ft. Smallwood Park, Ft. Smallwood Rd., Pasadena, Anne Arundel Co., MD

WEATHER: Sunny/PC, 33-60 degrees, calm- WNW 10 mph, Gust to 22 mph
OBSERVERS: 7 +6 visitors

Canada Goose - 28
Gadwall - 8
Mallard - 8
Lesser Scaup - 10
Bufflehead - 52
Red-breasted Merganser - 1 (drake, headed NW)
Common Loon - 34 (all headed N)
Pied-billed Grebe - 1
Horned Grebe - 3
Double-crested Cormorant - 42 (all over bay)
Great Blue Heron - 6 (some flyby over bay)
Great Egret - 2
Snowy Egret - 1
Black Vulture - 4 
Turkey Vulture - 109
Osprey - 19 (13 migrants, 6 locals, nests on buoys farther out in bay)
Bald Eagle - 5 (locals)
Northern Harrier - 1 (migrants)
Sharp-shinned Hawk - 21 (migrants)
Cooper's Hawk - 6 (4 migrants, 2 locals)
Broad-winged Hawk - 2 (migrants)
Red-tailed Hawk - 12 (10 migrants, 2 locals)
American Kestrel - 2 (migrants)
Merlin - 2 (migrants)
Peregrine Falcon - 1 (locals)
Killdeer - 6
Bonaparte's Gull - 8
Ring-billed Gull - 38
Herring Gull - 6
Great Black-backed Gull - 11
Caspian Tern - 4
Forster's Tern - 1
Rock Pigeon - 13
Mourning Dove - 2
Great Horned Owl - 1 (seen by few)
Red-bellied Woodpecker - 2
Downy Woodpecker - 1
Northern Flicker - 10
Eastern Phoebe - 1
Blue Jay - 8
American Crow - 4
Fish Crow - 2
Tree Swallow - 1210
N. Rough-winged Swallow - 8
Barn Swallow - 4
Carolina Chickadee - 4
Carolina Wren - 1
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher - 2
American Robin - 45
Northern Mockingbird - 6
European Starling - 1
Pine Warbler - 1
Palm Warbler - 2 (yellow)
Eastern Towhee - 1
Song Sparrow - 2
Northern Cardinal - 6
Red-winged Blackbird - 136
Common Grackle - 4
House Finch - 16
American Goldfinch - 7
SPECIES: 60
INDIVIDUALS: 1954

MAMMALS
Raccoon - 1 (sleeping in hollow tree)
Gray Squirrel - 8

REPTILES
Eastern Painted Turtle - 14
Red-eared Slider - 2
Red-bellied Turtle - 4

AMPHIBIANS
Southern Leopard Frog - 2

BUTTERFLIES
Cabbage White - 2


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