HI all,



   After a great BBC walk at Owings Mills Mall wetlands and yard work at friend's earlier today.   I checked out the vernal pool along Canning House Rd. later joined by Tom Field, Geraldine King and John Taylor. 


05/16/10 - 4pm-515pm
Canning House Rd., Perryman, Harford Co., MD

WEATHER: Fair, 71-69 degrees, SE 7 mph

Canada Goose - 14
Mallard - 3
Great Blue Heron - 2
Turkey Vulture - 5
Osprey - 1
Bald Eagle - 2
Semipalmated Plover - 14  
Killdeer - 4
Solitary Sandpiper - 1
Greater Yellowlegs - 3
Lesser Yellowlegs - 13
Semipalmated Sandpiper - 2 (one with least to north)
Least Sandpiper - 15 (some left for north)
White-rumped Sandpiper - 1
Wilson's Snipe - 1
Mourning Dove - 2
American Crow - 2
Horned Lark - 2
Tree Swallow - 3
Bank Swallow - 2
Barn Swallow - 9
Northern Mockingbird - 1
European Starling - 3
Grasshopper Sparrow - 1 (bathed in pool and flew back to weedy field) 
Red-winged Blackbird - 1
Common Grackle - 1
American Goldfinch - 1
SPECIES: 27
INDIVIDUALS: 109


    Kevin Graff
    Jarrettsville, MD