Hey all,


    I covered Diamond Point Flats (23 sp); Island Point S of Eastern
Blvd bridge (12 sp); Back River Waste Water Treatment Plant (54 sp);
North Point State Park--Defenders Trail (32 sp); Chesapeake Terrace
Community (17 sp); North Point Rd X Avenue C (Cattle Egrets); Edgemere
Senior Center & Park (14 sp); Oxygen Pond (19 sp) & Sparrows Point
Country Club (30 sp) in southeast area of Baltimore County.



05/12/12 - 645am- 110pm            6.6 miles traveling
Back River area from Diamond Point to Sparrows Point

WEATHER: PC, 53-74 degrees, calm- S 9 mph
OBSERVERS: Kevin Graff, Carol Schreter (left 1050am)

Canada Goose – 51
Wood Duck – 10
American Black Duck – 1
Mallard – 30
Double-crested Cormorant – 32
Great Blue Heron – 15
Great Egret – 2
Snowy Egret - 1
Little Blue Heron - 1
Cattle Egret - 31
Black Vulture - 1
Turkey Vulture – 1
Osprey – 8
Cooper’s Hawk – 1
Red-shouldered Hawk – 1
Red-tailed Hawk – 4
Killdeer - 1
Spotted Sandpiper - 1
Solitary Sandpiper – 2
Least Sandpiper – 21
Pectoral Sandpiper - 1
Bonaparte’s Gull – 96
Laughing Gull – 1
Ring-billed Gull – 38
Herring Gull - 11
Great Black-backed Gull - 1
Least Tern - 5
Forster's Tern - 1
Rock Pigeon – 17
Mourning Dove - 7
Chimney Swift – 97
Ruby-throated Hummingbird – 1
Red-bellied Woodpecker – 3
Downy Woodpecker – 5
Acadian Flycatcher - 1
Great Crested Flycatcher – 3
Eastern Kingbird – 7
Red-eyed Vireo – 3
Blue Jay – 6
American Crow - 2
Fish Crow – 1
Purple Martin - 2
N. Rough-winged Swallow – 11
Tree Swallow – 2
Barn Swallow – 37
Carolina Chickadee – 8
Tufted Titmouse – 5
Carolina Wren – 5
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher – 1
Eastern Bluebird - 1
Wood Thrush - 1
American Robin – 50
Gray Catbird – 7
Northern Mockingbird – 9
European Starling – 84
Cedar Waxwing – 73
Black-and-white Warbler – 1
Common Yellowthroat – 4
American Redstart - 1
Blackburnian Warbler – 1
Magnolia Warbler - 1
Yellow Warbler – 2
Pine Warbler – 1
Chipping Sparrow – 3
Song Sparrow – 2
Scarlet Tanager - 1
Northern Cardinal – 15
Indigo Bunting – 9
Red-winged Blackbird – 29
Common Grackle – 30
Brown-headed Cowbird – 3
Orchard Oriole- 2
House Finch – 6
American Goldfinch – 11
House Sparrow – 18
SPECIES: 75
INDIVIDUALS: 958



Not part of my territory, not sure if anyone did this part of loch
raven along the stream.

05/12/12 – 140pm-155pm
Cloverland Farms,

WEATHER: PC, 76 degrees, SW 8 mph
OBSERVER: Kevin Graff

Turkey Vulture – 1
Red-tailed Hawk – 1
Mourning Dove – 1
Blue Jay – 1
Barn Swallow – 4
American Robin – 2
Gray Catbird – 1
Northern Mockingbird – 2
European Starling – 1
Yellow Warbler – 1
Song Sparrow – 1
Northern Cardinal – 1
Indigo Bunting – 1
Bobolink – 3 (1 male, 2 females)
Red-winged Blackbird – 1
Orchard Oriole – 2
American Goldfinch – 1
SPECIES: 17

Kye Jenkins has the following birds earlier am at Cloverland Farms: 2
Red-tailed Hawk, 1 Solitary Sandpiper, 1 Northern Flicker, 6 Barn
Swallow, 1 Northern Mockingbird,
2 European Starling, 1 Yellow Warbler, 1 Song Sparrow and 2 Orchard Oriole.


05/12/12 – 205pm-240pm
Loch Raven Reservoir—Greene Branch, Phoenix Rd., Baltimore Co., MD

WEATHER: PC, 76 degrees, SW 8 mph
OBSERVER: Kevin Graff

Wood Duck – 1 (drake flushed)
Turkey Vulture – 2
Red-tailed Hawk – 1
Mourning Dove – 1
Red-bellied Woodpecker – 1
Acadian Flycatcher – 2
Great Crested Flycatcher – 1
Red-eyed Vireo – 3
Barn Swallow – 1 (flyover)
Tufted Titmouse – 2
Carolina Wren – 1
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher – 2
Wood Thrush – 1
American Robin – 6
Gray Catbird – 2
Cedar Waxwing – 1
Ovenbird – 1
Black-and-white Warbler – 1
Mourning Warbler – 1 (male, singing on low perch before flew into cover)
Common Yellowthroat – 1
Northern Parula – 2
Blackpoll Warbler – 1
Northern Cardinal – 4
Red-winged Blackbird – 1
Common Grackle – 2
SPECIES: 25



     Kevin Graff
     Jarrettsville, MD
     

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