Howard County Bird Club
A Chapter of the Maryland Ornithological Society
Dick Smith Memorial Walk
Elkhorn Garden Plots
| Trip leaders: Woody Merkle, Annette Allor, Linda Hunt, Kathy Litzinger |
Date of trip: September 4, 2022 |
| Location: Elkhorn Garden Plots | Number attending: 20 |
| Butterfly Recorder: Woody Merkle Bird Recorder: Meg Harris |
Photographer: Kelsey Wellons Details: Sunny, no wind, 83 humid degrees. |
Butterflies:
Silver-spotted Skipper: 3
Wild Indigo Duskywing: 2
Common Sootywing: 1
Least Skipper: 25
Fiery Skipper: 4
Peck’s Skipper: 3
Southern Broken-Dash: 1
Little Glassywing: 1
Sachem: 75
Zabulon Skipper: 2
Dun Skipper: 1
Ocola Skipper: 1
Black Swallowtail: 4
Eastern Tiger Swallowtail: 7
Spicebush Swallowtail: 2
Cabbage White: 30
Clouded Sulphur: 2
Orange Sulphur: 2
Cloudless Sulphur: 1
Sleepy Orange: 4
Eastern Tailed-Blue: 2
Variegated Fritillary: 21
American Lady: 1
Common Buckeye: 4
Red-spotted Purple: 3
Monarch-adult: 3
Birds:
Mourning Dove 2
Chimney Swift 2
Ruby-throated Hummingbird 1
Great Blue Heron 1
Black Vulture 5
Turkey Vulture 3
Red-shouldered Hawk 2
Red-tailed Hawk 1
Red-bellied Woodpecker 1
Downy Woodpecker 1
Eastern Wood-Pewee 1
Blue Jay 1
American Crow 2
White-breasted Nuthatch 1
Carolina Wren 2
European Starling 3
Gray Catbird 1
Northern Mockingbird 5
American Robin 2
House Sparrow 12
House Finch 3
American Goldfinch 4
Chipping Sparrow 1
Red-winged Blackbird 1
Northern Cardinal 4