Hi all,


  Just got back from my sister's wedding over the weekend in D.C. Was told I'll be a new uncle too.     Very busy day here at Cromwell on Friday, with 3 pocket of activities along Minebank Run Trail, nearly all warbler in single place just above the Lime Kiln. Overall in the park, we had 82 warblers in 13 species.  Great time there under cloudy weather.


09/25/09 - 710am-1235pm
Cromwell Valley Park, Cromwell Bridge Rd., Carney, Baltimore, Co., MD

WEATHER: Overcast/MC, 63-67 degrees, NNE 9 mph- NE 10 mph
OBSERVERS: John D, Kevin G, John L, Joel M, Leslie S

Canada Goose - 451 (18 flocks headed S & SW)
Great Blue Heron - 4
Black Vulture - 5
Turkey Vulture - 6
Osprey - 5 (migrants)
Bald Eagle - 1 (migrants)
Sharp-shinned Hawk - 30 (28 migrants, 2 local)
Cooper's Hawk - 3 (2 migrants, 1 local)
Red-shouldered Hawk - 1 (local)
Broad-winged Hawk - 86 (migrants)
Red-tailed Hawk - 1 (local)
American Kestrel - 6 (migrants)
Merlin - 1 (migrants)
Mourning Dove - 8
Chimney Swift - 17 (many headed S)
Ruby-throated Hummingbird - 1
Belted Kingfisher - 1
Red-bellied Woodpecker - 1
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker - 2
Downy Woodpecker - 6
Northern Flicker - 18
Pileated Woodpecker - 1
Eastern Wood-Pewee - 2
Eastern Phoebe - 3
Blue-headed Vireo - 3 
Red-eyed Vireo - 10
Blue Jay - 66 (many headed SW)
American Crow - 6
Tree Swallow - 8
Carolina Chickadee - 20
Tufted Titmouse - 17
White-breasted Nuthatch - 5
Carolina Wren - 3
House Wren - 2
Ruby-crowned Kinglet - 5
Eastern Bluebird - 23
Veery - 1
Swainson's Thrush - 2
American Robin - 549 (steady flight headed SE all morning)
Gray Catbird - 8
Northern Mockingbird - 4
Brown Thrasher - 1
European Starling - 4
Cedar Waxwing - 68 (several small flocks overhead)
Nashville Warbler - 2
Northern Parula - 6
Chestnut-sided Warbler - 8
Magnolia Warbler - 12
Black-throated Blue Warbler - 3
Black-throated Green Warbler - 9
Palm Warbler - 3 (2 yellow. 1 western)
Blackpoll Warbler - 1
Black-and-white Warbler - 14
American Redstart - 10
Ovenbird - 1
Common Yellowthroat - 12
Wilson's Warbler - 1
Scarlet Tanager - 2
Chipping Sparrow - 38 
Song Sparrow - 7
Lincoln's Sparrow - 1
Swamp Sparrow - 3
Northern Cardinal - 8
Rose-breasted Grosbeak - 2
Indigo Bunting - 4
Bobolink - 22 (single flock over hawkwatch)
Common Grackle - 1
House Finch - 2
American Goldfinch - 57
House Sparrow - 1
SPECIES: 70
TOTAL BIRDS: 1695

MAMMALS
Eastern Chipmunk - 1
Gray Squirrel - 38 (many gather food)

BUTTERFLIES
Monarch - 2


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