Phoenix Pond

Geoff Graff (ggraff@erols.com)
Sun, 09 May 1999 22:22:28 -0400 

Hi all,


    Went to Phoenix Pond today with BBC BIrdwalk upriver and later to 
downriver myself.


Birds seen:

  8  Canada Goose
  2  Mallard
  2  Wood Duck
  2  Turkey Vulture
  1  Osprey
  1  Broad-winged Hawk
  3  Solitary Sandpiper
  2  Spotted Sandpiper                                                  
  4  Mourning Dove
 11  Chimney Swift
  1  Ruby-throated Hummingbird (seen at parking lot on my way to the    
  truck)
  1  Belted Kingfisher
  1  Red-bellied Woodpecker
  1  Downy Woodpecker
  1  Pileated Woodpecker (heard loud drilling)
  1  Acadian Flycatcher
  2  E. Phoebe
  1  Great-crested Flycatcher
  2  E. Kingbird
 13  Tree Swallow
 12  N. Rough-winged Swallow
  5  Barn Swallow (no signs of Cliff Swallow at bridge downriver)
  6  Am. Crow
 25  Blue Jay
  6  Carolina Chickadee
  2  Tufted Titmouse
  1  White-breasted Nuthatch
  1  Carolina Wren
  1  House Wren
 29  Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
  1  Swainson's Thrush
  1  Wood Thrush
  8  Am. Robin
 12  Gray Catbird
  4  N. Mockingbird
  1  Brown Thrasher
  5  White-eyed Vireo
  1  Yellow-throated Vireo
  2  Red-eyed Vireo
  9  N. Parula
  3  Yellow Warbler
  1  Chestnut-sided Warbler
  3  Black-throated Blue Warbler
  2  Yellow-rumped Warbler
  1  Black-throated Green Warbler
  1  Blackburnian Warbler
  1  Blackpoll Warbler
  6  Black-and-white Warbler
  5  Am. Redstart
  1  Prothonotary Warbler
  1  Worm-eating Warbler (near bridge downriver)
  1  Ovenbird
  3  N. Waterthrush 
  1  Kentucky Warbler (seen about 200 yards downriver from parking lot)
 15  C. Yellowthroat
  1  Scarlet Tanager
  8  N. Cardinal
  1  Rose-breasted Grosbeak
  1  Indigo Bunting
  7  Swamp Sparrow
  1  White-throated Sparrow
  8  Red-winged Blackbird
 13  C. Grackle 
  2  Brown-headed Cowbird
  4  Orchard Oriole
  9  Baltimore Oriole
  4  Am. Goldfinch


       Kevin Graff
       Baltimore, MD
       ggraff@erols.com