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Cox Creek, 05/08/09

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Kevin Graff

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Fri, 8 May 2009 20:09:13 -0700

Hi all,



05/08/09 - 735am-1035am
Cox Creek Dredged Material Containment Facility, Kembo Rd., Orchard Beach, Anne Arundel Co., MD

WEATHER: Haze/Sunny, 60-64 degrees, variable 5 mph- ESE 9 mph

Canada Goose - 30 (pair w/ 4 goslings & 2nd pair w/ 2)
Mute Swan - 2
Wood Duck - 2
Mallard - 2
Double-crested Cormorant - 19 (single flock headed N)
Great Blue Heron - 4
Great Egret - 11
Snowy Egret - 5
Little Blue Heron - 7
Green Heron - 1
Black Vulture - 2
Turkey Vulture - 6
Osprey - 4
Northern Harrier - 1 (headed N)
Sharp-shinned Hawk - 3 (headed N)
Cooper's Hawk - 4 (2 headed N)
Killdeer - 8 (pair w/ 2 youngs)
Spotted Sandpiper - 2
Solitary Sandpiper - 1
Lesser Yellowlegs - 3
Least Sandpiper - 1
Ring-billed Gull - 2
Herring Gull - 9
Great Black-backed Gull - 1
Least Tern - 5
Mourning Dove - 1
Chimney Swift - 7
Ruby-throated Hummingbird - 1
Downy Woodpecker - 1
Northern Flicker - 1
Great Crested Flycatcher - 1
Eastern Kingbird - 2
Red-eyed Vireo - 1
Blue Jay - 146 (all headed N)
Fish Crow - 1
Tree Swallow - 14
Barn Swallow - 3
Carolina Chickadee - 3
Tufted Titmouse - 2
White-breasted Nuthatch - 1
Marsh Wren - 1
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher - 1
Gray Catbird - 6
European Starling - 4
Northern Parula - 1
Yellow-rumped Warbler - 1
Black-throated Green Warbler - 1
Palm Warbler - 1 (western)
Ovenbird - 1
Common Yellowthroat - 7 
Yellow-breasted Chat - 1 (power line cut area)
Swamp Sparrow - 2
White-throated Sparrow - 1
Northern Cardinal - 2
Blue Grosbeak - 2
Indigo Bunting - 1 (power line cut area)
Bobolink - 5 (single flock headed N)
Red-winged Blackbird - 13
Common Grackle - 5
Orchard Oriole - 2
Baltimore Oriole - 2
American Goldfinch - 9
SPECIES: 62
TOTAL BIRDS: 389

MAMMALS
Gray Squirrel - 3

REPTILES
Northern Water Snake - 1
Eastern Painted Turtle - 3
Red-eared Slider - 1

AMPHIBIANS
Green Frog - 1

BUTTERFLIES
Eastern Tiger Swallowtail - 1
Cabbage White - 2
Question Mark - 1

DRAGONFLIES
Blue Corporal - 2 (females)

BEETLES
Six-spotted Tiger Beetle - 2
Bronzed Tiger Beetle - 11


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