Hi all,



Baltimore Bird Club's fourth in a series of weekly walks to follow the progress of Fall Migration, next walk on 09/22/09, at 8am.


09/15/09 - 8am-11am
Cromwell Valley Park, Cromwell Bridge Rd., Carney, Baltimore Co., MD

WEATHER: Fair, 64-78 degrees, calm- NNW 7 mph
LEADER: Ruth Culbertson
OBSERVERS: 14

Canada Goose - 4
Great Blue Heron - 1
Black Vulture - 3
Turkey Vulture - 6
Osprey - 2 (lower dams)
Bald Eagle - 2
Cooper's Hawk - 1
Red-shouldered Hawk - 1
Broad-winged Hawk - 4
Red-tailed Hawk - 3
Ring-billed Gull - 1 (lower dams)
Rock Pigeon - 1
Mourning Dove - 10
Yellow-billed Cuckoo - 1 (seen by two obs.)
Chimney Swift - 1 (lower dams)
Ruby-throated Hummingbird - 1
Belted Kingfisher - 1
Red-bellied Woodpecker - 3
Downy Woodpecker - 2
Northern Flicker - 9
Yellow-bellied Flycatcher - 1
Eastern Wood-Pewee - 7
Acadian Flycatcher - 1
Traill's Flycatcher - 1 (possible Alder)
Eastern Phoebe - 1
Warbling Vireo - 3
Red-eyed Vireo - 8
Blue Jay - 11
American Crow - 4
Carolina Chickadee - 10
Tufted Titmouse - 8
White-breasted Nuthatch - 2
Carolina Wren - 2
House Wren - 3
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher - 1
Eastern Bluebird - 30
Swainson's Thrush - 1
Wood Thrush - 1
American Robin - 26
Gray Catbird - 15
Northern Mockingbird - 4
European Starling - 8
Cedar Waxwing - 6
Nashville Warbler - 1
Chestnut-sided Warbler - 1
Magnolia Warbler - 4
American Redstart - 2
Ovenbird - 1
Common Yellowthroat - 3
Chipping Sparrow - 20
Song Sparrow - 3
Northern Cardinal - 7
Rose-breasted Grosbeak - 1
Indigo Bunting - 1
Red-winged Blackbird - 1 (female)
Common Grackle - 1
Brown-headed Cowbird - 1 (w/ family of House Finches)
House Finch - 13
American Goldfinch - 39
SPECIES: 59
TOTAL BIRDS: 310

MAMMALS
Gray Squirrel - 17

BUTTERFLIES
Eastern Tiger Swallowtail - 3
Cabbage White - 9
Orange Sulphur - 4
Summer Azure - 9
Monarch - 12 (including 8 caterpillars)
Wild Indigo Duskywing - 1
Horace's Duskywing - 1
Pearl crescent - 2
Sachem - 5
Least Skipper - 4


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