Hi all,


  Another good day at Cromwell Valley Park. Not as many as last Friday. Hopefully tomorrow will be better with BBC's birdwalk depend on condition of winds.


09/28/09 - 715am-12pm
Cromwell Valley Park, Cromwell Bridge Rd., Carney, Baltimore Co., MD
 
WEATHER: Sunny/PC, 54-73 degrees, WSW 5 mph- SSW 12 mph 
OBSERVERS: Kevin G, John L, Nico S (both left early) 

Canada Goose - 6
Great Blue Heron - 2
Black Vulture - 3
Turkey Vulture - 11
Osprey - 10 (migrants)
Bald Eagle - 1 (local) 
Sharp-shinned Hawk - 36 (34 migrants, 2 local)
Cooper's Hawk - 3 (2 migrants, 1 local) 
Red-shouldered Hawk - 1 (local) 
Broad-winged Hawk - 19 (migrants)
Red-tailed Hawk - 4 (local)
American Kestrel - 1 (migrants)
Merlin - 1 (migrants)
Rock Pigeon - 3
Mourning Dove - 6
Chimney Swift - 44 (many headed SW)
Belted Kingfisher - 1
Red-bellied Woodpecker - 2
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker - 1
Downy Woodpecker - 5
Northern Flicker - 13
Eastern Wood-Pewee - 1
Eastern Phoebe - 4
Yellow-throated Vireo - 1
Philadelphia Vireo - 1
Red-eyed Vireo - 6
Blue Jay - 70
American Crow - 5
Carolina Chickadee - 6
Tufted Titmouse - 5
White-breasted Nuthatch - 4
Carolina Wren - 2
House Wren - 3
Ruby-crowned Kinglet - 8
Eastern Bluebird - 16
Swainson's Thrush - 1
American Robin - 96
Gray Catbird - 7
Northern Mockingbird - 4 
Brown Thrasher - 1
European Starling - 9
Cedar Waxwing - 2
Tennessee Warbler - 1 (woodedge before hedgerow)
Nashville Warbler - 1
Northern Parula - 2
Chestnut-sided Warbler - 1
Magnolia Warbler - 4
Black-throated Blue Warbler - 1 
Black-throated Green Warbler - 8
Pine Warbler - 1
Palm Warbler - 3 (2 yellow, 1 western)
Black-and-white Warbler - 1
American Redstart - 2
Common Yellowthroat - 10 
Eastern Towhee - 1
Chipping Sparrow - 22
Song Sparrow - 4
Swamp Sparrow - 3
Northern Cardinal - 6
Rose-breasted Grosbeak - 1
Indigo Bunting - 2
Common Grackle - 2
House Finch - 12
American Goldfinch - 49
SPECIES: 64
TOTAL BIRDS: 562

MAMMALS
Gray Squirrel - 19
White-tailed Deer - 3

BUTTERFLIES
Cabbage White - 4
Monarch - 6

DRAGONFLIES
Swamp Darner - 1


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