Hi all,



First of two scouting trips before begins BBC winter weekly walks at Loch Raven & Prettyboy Reservoirs on first Tues in Nov and will run till mid-Mar 2010.  Next scouting trip at Loch Raven on Tues Oct 27th at 830am. 


10/20/09 - 830am-1130am
Loch Raven Reservoir "Loch Raven Skeet & Trap Club" Dulaney Valley Rd., E of Stone Hill Rd., Phoenix, Baltimore Co., MD

WEATHER: MC/Fair, 45-61 degrees, WSW 3 mph- W 4 mph
OBSERVERS: Kevin G, John L, Paul N

Canada Goose - 149
CACKLING "RICHARDSON'S" GOOSE - 1 (best viewing near #1 bridge)
Wood Duck - 7
American Wigeon - 6
Mallard - 15
Ring-necked Duck - 11
Pied-billed Grebe - 4
Double-crested Cormorant - 1
Great Blue Heron - 2
Black Vulture - 3
Turkey Vulture - 6
Bald Eagle - 2
Sharp-shinned Hawk - 2
Cooper's Hawk - 1
Red-tailed Hawk - 1
American Kestrel - 1
Ring-billed Gull - 16
Rock Pigeon - 4
Mourning Dove - 2
Belted Kingfisher - 1
Red-bellied Woodpecker - 3
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker - 1
Downy Woodpecker - 5
Northern Flicker - 6
Eastern Phoebe - 1
Blue Jay - 20
American Crow - 7
Carolina Chickadee - 13
Tufted Titmouse - 6
White-breasted Nuthatch - 2
Carolina Wren - 1
Golden-crowned Kinglet - 3
Ruby-crowned Kinglet - 11
Eastern Bluebird - 17
Hermit Thrush - 1
American Robin - 285
Northern Mockingbird - 3
European Starling - 9
Cedar Waxwing - 6
Yellow-rumped Warbler - 128
Palm Warbler - 2 (yellow & western)
Eastern Towhee - 2
Chipping Sparrow - 26
Field Sparrow - 3
Song Sparrow - 16
Swamp Sparrow - 1
White-throated Sparrow - 140
"Slate-colored" Junco - 9
Northern Cardinal - 5
Red-winged Blackbird - 2
Brown-headed Cowbird - 1
House Finch - 1
American Goldfinch - 20
SPECIES: 53
TOTAL BIRDS: 991

MAMMALS
Gray Squirrel - 8

BUTTERFLIES
Cabbage White - 2
Common Buckeye - 1
Monarch - 1

10/20/09 - 1135am-1150am
Loch Raven Reservoir "Loch Raven Dams" Loch Raven Dr., Carney, Baltimore Co., MD

WEATHER: Fair, 62 degrees, W 4 mph

Canada Goose - 32
Mallard - 2
Double-crested Cormorant - 3
Great Blue Heron - 1
Turkey Vulture - 2
Red-tailed Hawk - 1
Ring-billed Gull - 4
Northern Flicker - 1
Eastern Phoebe - 2
Blue Jay - 2
American Crow - 3
Fish Crow - 2
Ruby-crowned Kinglet - 1
American Robin - 2
European Starling - 4
Yellow-rumped Warbler - 2
Palm Warbler - 1 (western)
White-throated Sparrow - 3
Northern Cardinal - 2
House Finch - 3
American Goldfinch - 2
SPECIES: 21
TOTAL BIRDS: 75



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