Hi all,



  Earlier before dawn, Keith Costley & I did the Light Out Baltimore and found lots of live migrants near the Visitor Center of harbor area and at Hopkins Plaza area. Ruby-crowned Kinglet, gnatcatcher, Hermit Thrushes, thrashers, Towhees, Chipping, Song, Whitethroats and Juncos.  Peregrine Falcon continue at Legg Mason Building.


04/07/10 - 8am-11am
Ft. McHenry National Monument, Fort Ave., Locust Point section of Baltimore, MD

WEATHER: Fair/PC, 67-82 degrees, WSW 4 mph- WSW 8 mph
OBSERVERS: 6

Canada Goose - 2
Mallard - 8
Canvasback - 1 (drake)
Bufflehead - 33
Red-breasted Merganser - 9
Common Loon - 5 (3 high flying headed S toward Key Bridge)
Horned Grebe - 1
Double-crested Cormorant - 15
Great Blue Heron - 1
Osprey - 4
Cooper's Hawk - 1
American Coot - 2
Ring-billed Gull - 29
Herring Gull - 4
Great Black-backed Gull - 3
Caspian Tern - 1
Rock Pigeon - 2
Mourning Dove - 1
Northern Flicker - 1
Fish Crow - 1
Tree Swallow - 31
N. Rough-winged Swallow - 2
Barn Swallow - 1
Brown Creeper - 1
Marsh Wren - 1
Golden-crowned Kinglet - 2
Ruby-crowned Kinglet - 1
Hermit Thrush - 1
American Robin - 16
Northern Mockingbird - 2
European Starling - 3
Palm Warbler - 1 (yellow, on way out, tree inside gate)
Eastern Towhee - 2
Chipping Sparrow - 1
Field Sparrow - 1
Song Sparrow - 8
Swamp Sparrow - 10
White-throated Sparrow - 3
"Slate-colored" Junco - 2
Northern Cardinal - 2
Red-winged Blackbird - 28
Common Grackle - 19
Brown-headed Cowbird - 4
House Finch - 4
American Goldfinch - 2
House Sparrow - 14
SPECIES: 46
INDIVIDUALS: 286

MAMMALS
Gray Squirrel - 9
Muskrat - 2

REPTILES
Eastern Painted Turtle - 2
Northern Water Snake - 1

BUTTERFLIES
Cabbage White - 6
Clouded Sulphur - 1
Question Mark - 1
Mourning Cloak - 1


   Kevin Graff
   Jarrettsville, MD