Hi all,


  Another good day at CVP, mainly in the early afternoon along woodedge.
Slow day during birdwalk but pick up around 1pm.  We even got 7 woodpecker species. Adult Red-headed near hawkwatch was a nice surprise.


09/29/09 - 8am-4pm (birdwalk 8am-11am)
Cromwell Valley Park, Cromwell Bridge Rd., Carney, Baltimore Co., MD

WEATHER: Fair/PC, 53-66 degrees, WSW 8 mph- W 14 mph
LEADER: John Landers (filling in for someone)
OBSERVERS: 15 (plus 5 others at hawkwatch rest of day)

Canada Goose - 12 (single flock headed SE)
Mallard - 1
Great Blue Heron - 1
Black Vulture - 9
Turkey Vulture - 18
Osprey - 14 (migrants)
Bald Eagle - 4 (3 migrants, 1 local)
Sharp-shinned Hawk - 34 (32 migrants, 2 local)
Cooper's Hawk - 3 (2 migrants, 1 local)
Red-shouldered Hawk - 2 (local)
Broad-winged Hawk - 10 (migrants)
Red-tailed Hawk - 5 (1 migrants, 5 local)
American Kestrel - 7 (migrants)
Merlin - 1 (migrants)
Peregrine Falcon - 1 (migrants)
Ring-billed Gull - 3
Rock Pigeon - 2
Mourning Dove - 11
Chimney Swift - 77 (many over ridge headed SWW)
Ruby-throated Hummingbird - 1
Belted Kingfisher - 2
RED-HEADED WOODPECKER - 1
Red-bellied Woodpecker - 6
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker - 2
Downy Woodpecker - 6
Hairy Woodpecker - 1
Northern Flicker - 46
Pileated Woodpecker - 1
Eastern Wood-Pewee - 1
Eastern Phoebe - 3
Red-eyed Vireo - 14
Blue Jay - 116
American Crow - 40
Carolina Chickadee - 13
Tufted Titmouse - 7
White-breasted Nuthatch - 5
Carolina Wren - 4
House Wren - 9
Ruby-crowned Kinglet - 13
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher - 1
Eastern Bluebird - 21
Swainson's Thrush - 2
American Robin - 252
Gray Catbird - 17
Northern Mockingbird - 7
Brown Thrasher - 1
European Starling - 15
Cedar Waxwing - 53 (several flocks)
Nashville Warbler - 1
Magnolia Warbler - 11
Black-throated Blue Warbler - 2
Black-throated Green Warbler - 12
Prairie Warbler - 1
Palm Warbler - 4 (2 yellow, 2 western)
American Redstart - 3
Ovenbird - 4
Common Yellowthroat - 15
Scarlet Tanager - 2
Chipping Sparrow - 29
Field Sparrow - 1
Song Sparrow - 10
Lincoln's Sparrow - 1
Swamp Sparrow - 3
Northern Cardinal - 12
Indigo Bunting - 3
Brown-headed Cowbird - 2
House Finch - 11
American Goldfinch - 71
SPECIES: 68
TOTAL BIRDS: 1073

MAMMALS
Gray Squirrel - 20
White-tailed Deer - 7

BUTTERFLIES
Eastern Tiger Swallowtail - 2
Cabbage White- 3
Orange Sulphur - 2
Red-spotted Purple - 1
Common Buckeye - 1
Monarch - 3
Question Mark - 2

DRAGONFLIES
Common Green Darner - 2
Swamp Darner - 1
Black Saddlebags - 1
Twelve-spotted Skimmer - 1
Wandering Glider - 3
meadowhawk sp. - 2 (likely Yellow-legged or Autumn)


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