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Liberty Dam Trail, 04/26/08

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Kevin Graff

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Kevin Graff

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Sun, 27 Apr 2008 10:13:24 -0700

Hi all,


04/26/08 - 8am-1pm
Patapsco Valley State Park "Liberty Dam Trail"
Marriottsville Rd., Woodstock, Baltimore Co., MD

WEATHER: MC/Fair, 62-74 degrees, ENE 6 mph- ENE 10 mph
LEADER: Paul Noell
OBSERVERS: 9

Canada Goose - 4 (B & C)
Double-crested Cormorant - 6 (NW, at entrance road)
Great Blue Heron - 6 (B & C)
Green Heron - 1 (Carroll only)
Black Vulture - 1 (seen by one observer)
Turkey Vulture - 15 (B & C)
Osprey - 1
Sharp-shinned Hawk - 1
Red-shouldered Hawk - 2
Red-tailed Hawk - 2 (B & C)
Spotted Sandpiper - 3 (one in B briefly, rest in C)
Ring-billed Gull - 1 
Mourning Dove - 3 (one in C)
Great Horned Owl - 1
Belted Kingfisher - 1
Red-bellied Woodpecker - 2
Downy Woodpecker - 1
Hairy Woodpecker - 1
Northern Flicker - 1
Pileated Woodpecker - 1 (heard)
Eastern Phoebe - 1
Eastern Kingbird - 1 (heard)
Yellow-throated Vireo - 5 (2 heard, 3 seen in scope)
Blue-headed Vireo - 1
Red-eyed Vireo - 2
Blue Jay - 58
American Crow - 4
Fish Crow - 1 (heard)
Northern Rough-winged Swallow - 8 (B & C)
Barn Swallow - 2
Carolina Chickadee - 3
Tufted Titmouse - 3
Red-breasted Nuthatch - 1 (heard)
White-breasted Nuthatch - 1
Carolina Wren - 2
House Wren - 1
Ruby-crowned Kinglet - 2
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher - 10
Eastern Bluebird - 1
Wood Thrush - 1
American Robin - 1
Northern Mockingbird - 2
European Starling - 2
American Pipit - 1 (heard by one, seen by other)
Blue-winged Warbler - 1 (heard)
Northern Parula - 8 (one in C)
Black-throated Green Warbler - 1 (heard)
Yellow-throated Warbler - 3 (one in C at lot)
Pine Warbler - 1 (seen by one, heard by few)
Prairie Warbler - 1 (heard only)
Black-and-white Warbler - 2
Worm-eating Warbler - 2 (one seen by few)
Ovenbird - 1
Northern Waterthrush - 1
Louisiana Waterthrush - 6 (2 in C)
Scarlet Tanager - 2 (one see by all)
Eastern Towhee - 1 (female)
Chipping Sparrow - 4
Swamp Sparrow - 1
White-throated Sparrow - 6
Northern Cardinal - 4
Brown-headed Cowbird - 8
Baltimore Oriole - 1 (heard only)
House Finch - 1
American Goldfinch - 12
House Sparrow - 1
SPECIES: 66
TOTAL BIRDS: 236

MAMMALS
Gray Squirrel - 3
White-tailed Deer - 3

REPTILES
Black Rat Snake - 1 (roughly 3')
Ringneck Snake - 1

AMPHIBIANS
Green Frog - 1 (heard)
Gray's Tree Frog - 5 (heard)

BUTTERFLIES
Eastern Tiger Swallowtail - 6
Cabbage White - 10
Falcate Orangetip - 1 (female)
Spring Azure - 1
Mourning Cloak - 1
Juvenal's Duskywing - 5
Question Mark - 1
Eastern Tailed Blue - 6

DRAGONFLIES
Common Baskettail - 1

MOTHS
Eastern Tent Caterpillar - 15

BEETLES
Six-Spotted Tiger Beetle - 5
Green Ground Beetle - 2
Margined Carrion Beetle - 4 (feed on dead mouse)


04/26/08 - 105pm-140pm
Along Powell's Run Rd., Randallstown, Baltimore Co.,MD


WEATHER: Fair, 74-75 degrees, ENE 10 mph- E 8 mph
OBSERVERS: 6

Turkey Vulture - 5
Red-tailed Hawk - 1
Mourning Dove - 1 (on way out)
Red-bellied Woodpecker - 1
Yellow-throated Vireo - 1 (heard only)
White-eyed Vireo - 2 
Blue Jay - 1
American Crow - 2 (on way out)
Carolina Wren - 1
House Wren - 1 (heard only)
American Robin - 1
Gray Catbird - 1 (heard by one observer)
Northern Mockingbird - 1
Northern Parula - 2
Prairie Warbler - 1 (heard by one observer)
Common Yellowthroat - 1 
Eastern Towhee - 1
Field Sparrow - 1 
Savannah Sparrow - 2 
Song Sparrow - 1 (heard only)
Northern Cardinal - 4
Baltimore Oriole - 1 (seen by few)
American Goldfinch - 1
SPECIES: 23 (72 species total)
TOTAL BIRDS: 34 (270 total) 

BUTTERFLIES
Cabbage White - 16
Orange Sulphur - 1
Pearl Crescent - 2



     Kevin Graff
     Jarrettsville, MD & West O.C., MD
     




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