Hi all,



   Will return to normal weekly walks next Tues Jan 5th at 830am beginning with Loch Raven Reservoir. Let me know by Mon evening if need info or directions. 



12/30/09 - 830am-11am
Loch Raven Reservoir "Loch Raven Skeet & Trap Club" Dulaney Valley Rd., E of Stone Hill Rd., Phoenix, Baltimore Co., MD

WEATHER: Overcast/MC, 23-28 degrees, calm- SW 6 mph
OBSERVERS: Kevin G, John L, Paul N

Canada Goose - 226
Mute Swan  - 2
Gadwall - 6
American Wigeon - 53
American Black Duck - 6
Mallard - 21
Redhead - 2
Ring-necked Duck - 499
Bufflehead - 18
Hooded Merganser - 17
Common Merganser - 68
Pied-billed Grebe - 1
Great Blue Heron - 1
Black Vulture - 2
Turkey Vulture - 1
Bald Eagle - 4
Cooper's Hawk - 1
Ring-billed Gull - 28
Herring Gull - 1
Great Horned Owl - 1
Belted Kingfisher - 1
Red-bellied Woodpecker - 4
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker - 1
Downy Woodpecker - 4
Northern Flicker - 1
Pileated Woodpecker - 1
Blue Jay - 6
American Crow - 5
Carolina Chickadee - 7
Tufted Titmouse - 10
White-breasted Nuthatch - 3
Brown Creeper - 1
Carolina Wren - 1
Winter Wren - 1
Golden-crowned Kinglet - 2
Eastern Bluebird - 6
Hermit Thrush - 1
Northern Mockingbird - 5
European Starling - 13
Yellow-rumped Warbler - 1
Eastern Towhee - 5
Field Sparrow - 10
Fox Sparrow - 1
Song Sparrow - 20
White-throated Sparrow - 149
"Slate-colored" Junco - 4
Northern Cardinal - 15
Red-winged Blackbird - 15
Common Grackle - 13
American Goldfinch - 1
SPECIES: 50
TOTAL BIRDS: 1265

MAMMALS
Gray Squirrel - 1
White-tailed Deer - 4

12/30/09 - 11am-1120am
Loch Raven Reservoir "Loch Raven Dams" Loch Raven Dr., Carney, Baltimore Co., MD

WEATHER: MC, 28-29 degrees, SW 5 mph
OBSERVER: Kevin Graff

Canada Goose - 248
American Wigeon - 2
American Black Duck - 18
Mallard - 4
Ring-necked Duck - 38
Bufflehead - 6
Hooded Merganser - 5
Common Merganser - 76
Bald Eagle - 1
Red-tailed Hawk - 1
Ring-billed Gull - 15
Red-bellied Woodpecker - 1
American Crow - 1
Tufted Titmouse - 2
Northern Mockingbird - 1
Song Sparrow - 1
SPECIES: 16
TOTAL BIRDS: 420

Afterward, went to Herrington Harbour and saw the sandpiper but it flew when I arrive at the jetty. Couldn't relocated. Also got the single pipit there as well as loads of waterfowl including 16 swans, 40 greater & 151 lesser scaup, 60 long-tailed ducks, 31 surf scoters, 167 bufflehead, 63 goldeneyes and bunch of geese and Mallard. One each loon and gannet farther out and 2 Killdeer.


   Kevin Graff
   Jarrettsville, MD