Hey all,
Slow day due to major changes in landscape as MES crew cleared a
large patch of forests that are covered with invasive elms and replaced
with native trees.
03/07/12 – 715am-1045am (monthly survey - not open too public)
Masonville Cove Environmental Education Center, Frankfurst Ave, Baltimore,
MD
WEATHER: PC/Fair, 33-54 degrees, calm- W 9 mph
OBSERVERS: Kevin Graff, Bob Ringler
Canada Goose – 105 (single flock of 72 headed N)
Wood Duck – 1 (drake)
Gadwall – 5 (3 drakes, 2 hens)
Mallard – 12 (6 pairs)
Canvasback – 35 (18 drakes, 17 hens)
Redhead – 2 (pair, not an easy one to find in the city)
Ring-necked Duck – 1 (drake)
Lesser Scaup – 166
Scaup sp – 15
Bufflehead – 89
Hooded Merganser – 4 (2 pairs)
Common Merganser – 5 (2 drakes, 3 hens)
Ruddy Duck – 160
Pied-billed Grebe – 4
Double-crested Cormorant – 10
Great Blue Heron – 1
Turkey Vulture – 9
Bald Eagle – 1 (distant soaring)
Sharp-shinned Hawk – 1
American Coot – 14
Killdeer – 2
Ring-billed Gull – 190
Herring Gull – 4
Great Black-backed Gull – 2
Rock Pigeon – 2
Mourning Dove – 3
Belted Kingfisher – 1
Downy Woodpecker – 1
Fish Crow - 15
Carolina Wren – 2
American Robin – 25
Northern Mockingbird – 2
European Starling – 5
Song Sparrow – 7
White-throated Sparrow – 3
Northern Cardinal – 5
Red-winged Blackbird – 7
SPECIES: 36
INDIVIDUALS: 916
MAMMALS
River Otter – 1
White-tailed Deer – 3
Kevin Graff
Jarrettsville, MD
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