fINALYYYYYYYYYY!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 
Hi Everyone, I pulled a Stan Arnold tonight and sat in my car for a yard watch .Common Nighthawk , Life bird number 238 flew through  moms neighborhood . Didnt think this would be where i would finally get to see this bird . I have been to many spots looking for this bird for the last couple years  with no luck . Going to list birds ive gotten since weekend to make my list look exciting . 

> Location:    Brooklyn Park Moms house 
> 
> Observation date:     9/14/10
> Number of species:     14
> 
> Green Heron     1
> Mourning Dove     2
> Common Nighthawk     1
> Chimney Swift     5
> American Crow     30
> Carolina Chickadee     1
> Tufted Titmouse     2
> Carolina Wren     1
> American Robin     10
> European Starling     100
> Black-and-white Warbler     1  new yard bird 
> Northern Cardinal     1
> Common Grackle     500   5 clusters of 100 
> American Goldfinch     5
> 
> This report was generated automatically by eBird v2(http://ebird.org)
>
 Southwest area park 9-6-10 6-7-pm 
Peregrine Falcom  1  while mom and i were eating dinner looking at deer  and sorting thru the starlings and robins spread across the ballfield everything took flight as a hawklike bird flew low across the field headed right for my car. OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO Peregrine falcon !!!! did you see the black hood!!!!!  
First good view of this bird for me and first one seen for mom. 

Kinder Farm Park 9-11-10 
Cattle Egret  1   hanging with the cattle . seen them here mostly every visit this summer . high count was 22 
Redshouldered hawk 2
American goldfinch 10 
Songsparrow  1 
Baltimore oriole 2 barn area 
Great crested flycatcher  1  barn area 

Furnace Creek  rt 10 area  9-11-10
Bald Eagle 1 hung out by the homeless camp 
Osprey 2
Great blue heron  1 
White Egret    2
Double crested cormorrant  3

Race road Elkridge   9-13-10
Coopers Hawk  1
Red Shouldered hawk 2  stalking mr. coopers . i waited for him to fly as i knew they would go after him but he just sat there in his tree as they flew to different trees around him .  finally they gave up . 
White egret 1
Black duck 2
E. Bluebird  1 but probably more . there were alot of finches in same area 
A Goldfinch  10
House Finch 10 
N Cardinal  2
Blue jay 2
N Mockingbird 2
G Catbird 2
G Yellowlegs  1

Southwest area park 9-13-10 

Osprey 1
Great blue heron 2
White egret   3
Red Fox  1  walked across the marsh on the left.   photographed 

Saundra byrd 

baltimore