Hi all,



05/04/09 - 640am-745am (after Light Out Baltimore Project)
Patterson Park, Eastern Ave., Highlandtown section of bBaltimore, MD

WEATHER: light drizzle/light rain, 54-53 degrees, E 10 mph

Mallard - 40
Black-crowned Night Heron - 1 (adult)
Ring-billed Gull - 58
Great Black-backed Gull - 1 (flyby)
Rock Pigeon - 1
Mourning Dove - 2
Chimney Swift - 1
Northern Flicker - 1
Eastern Kingbird - 2
American Crow - 1
Fish Crow - 4
N. Rough-winged Swallow - 2
Barn Swallow - 4
Carolina Chickadee - 1
Carolina Wren - 1
Sedge Wren - 1 (brief view)
Ruby-crowned Kinglet - 1
American Robin - 19
Gray Catbird - 4
Northern Mockingbird - 2
Brown Thrasher - 1
European Starling - 9
Yellow Warbler - 1 (playground area)
Ovenbird - 1
Common Yellowthroat - 2
Savannah Sparrow - 1
Song Sparrow - 1
Swamp Sparrow - 2
White-throated Sparrow - 3
Northern Cardinal - 2
Indigo Bunting - 1
Red-winged Blackbird - 13
Common Grackle - 4
Baltimore Oriole - 1
American Goldfinch - 3
House Finch - 2
House Sparrow - 4
SPECIES: 37
TOTAL BIRDS: 198

MAMMALS
Gray Squirrel - 3

Earlier at Hopkins Plaza near Charles St around 6am, there were many Ovenbird, Common Yellowthroat, White-throated Sparrow and catbird and a single immature White-crowned Sparrow. 


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