Cromwell Valley Park report
Geoff Graff (ggraff@erols.com)
Sat, 27 Mar 1999 23:43:07 -0500
Hi all,
Went to Cromwell Valley Park today for Wild Bird Center Birdwalk.
Birds seen:
1 Great Blue Heron (late afternoon)
3 Canada Geese
10 Turkey Vulture (3 in a.m.)
5 Black Vulture (late afternoon)
3 Red-tailed Hawk * see note below*
1 Cooper's Hawk
2 Ring-billed Gull
2 Killdeer
1 Great Horned Owl *see note below*
12 Mourning Dove
3 Rock Dove
2 Belted Kingfisher
1 Red-bellied Woodpecker
1 Downy Woodpecker
1 C. Flicker
17 Am. Crow (53 in late afternoon)
2 Blue Jay
7 Carolina Chickadee
58 Am. Robin
10 N. Mockingbird
2 E. Bluebird
1 E. Meadowlark
1 E. Phoebe
49 Eurpoean Starling
1 E. Towhee
18 N. Cardinal
13 Song Sparrow
12 White-throated Sparrow
15 "Slate-colored" Junco
8 RW Blackbird
4 C. Grackle
9 House Sparrow
4 House Finch
4 Am. Goldfinch
*Note: A pair of Red-tailed Hawk has a nest at far west end of the park
near the housing development on one of the old Great Horned Owl's nest
from 1997. Also a pair of Great Horned Owl had a nest too, the female
was seen in the nest. She been in the nest for two weeks, she probably
has eggs in there.
Jim Myers and I will set up camp behind the camouflage net at one of
the old deer blind a week after Easter to photograph and observe the
owls at the nest. We both will wear camouflage clothes so the owls
won't see us. The deer blind was about 300 feet or less from the nest
at the top of the hill.
Kevin Graff
Baltimore, MD
gtgraff@erols.com