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Montgomery Co. Birds, 6/6

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Michael Ostrowski

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Michael Ostrowski

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Sun, 7 Jun 2009 15:28:26 -0400

Hi all,
   I got a late start yesterday and decided to go to Little Bennett where I
could keep an eye out for butterflies if the birds were quiet. When I got
there it was still cool and damp enough that I had better luck with birds at
first. I took the Western Piedmont Trail to Earl's Picnic Area then doubled
back and took the Browning Run Trail toward the Tobacco Barn Trail. Browning
Run itself was not easily crossable so I never made it to the actual barn.
Highlights include two Kentucky Warblers along the Browning Run Trail near
the road and a Common Raven heard from the same location.

   After a siesta I ventured back out for some night birding. I started at
Violette's Lock at 8:30 and then made my way west and north to Mt. Ephraim
Road (inspired by Stan Arnold's report of a Whip there), reaching Park Mills
Rd around 11. Despite the first clear night in a while and the nearly full
moon, I didn't have any luck with Whip-poor-wills or other night birds; I
had three Barred Owls and that's it. In fact, the bird highlight was not a
nocturnal species. While listening from the big dike at Hughes Hollow around
9:15 I heard a flycatcher. It went down in my mind as
"non-owl/nightjar/rail." A few minutes later a thought popped into my head:
that wasn't a Phoebe. While trying to justify to myself calling it an Alder,
it called again (around 9:30) and it was confirmed to be a Willow
Flycatcher. It was calling from the same location described by Paul
Woodward.

   After that it was pretty slow. I had one Killdeer that was probably
really a Mockingbird on Martinsburg Rd and then nothing at all along Mt
Ephraim Rd.

   Full list for LB:

Location:     Little Bennett Regional Park
Observation date:     6/6/09
Number of species:     31

Turkey Vulture     1
Red-shouldered Hawk     1
Red-bellied Woodpecker     1
Pileated Woodpecker     1
Eastern Wood-Pewee     3
Acadian Flycatcher     5
White-eyed Vireo     1
Yellow-throated Vireo     1
Red-eyed Vireo     2
Blue Jay     2
American Crow     1
Common Raven     1
Tree Swallow     3
Carolina Chickadee     1
Tufted Titmouse     2
Eastern Bluebird     1
Wood Thrush     6
American Robin     4
Gray Catbird     6
European Starling     1
Cedar Waxwing     3
Northern Parula     4
Prairie Warbler     6
Ovenbird     3
Kentucky Warbler     2
Common Yellowthroat     5
Eastern Towhee     4
Field Sparrow     1
Northern Cardinal     4
Indigo Bunting     1
Baltimore Oriole     1


Butterflies
Cabbage White
Red-spotted Purple
Little Wood-satyr
Azure
Eastern Tiger Swallowtail
Great-spangled Fritillary (?)


Mike Ostrowski
North Bethesda