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Masonville Cove - March 7, 2012

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Kevin Graff

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Kevin Graff

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Wed, 7 Mar 2012 18:09:35 -0500

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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