![Howard_logo Howard County Bird Club](https://i0.wp.com/howardbirds.website/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/Howard_logo-102x100.jpg)
Howard County Bird Club
A Chapter of the Maryland Ornithological Society
![MOS_logo-NEW MOS_logo-NEW](https://i0.wp.com/howardbirds.website/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/MOS_logo-NEW-102x100.png)
Western Regional Park Photographs
![westernregionalpark-greatblueheronatbackpond June Treekrem](https://i0.wp.com/howardbirds.website/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/westernregionalpark-greatblueheronatbackpond-500x250.jpg)
![westernregionalpark-sign June Tveekrem](https://i0.wp.com/howardbirds.website/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/westernregionalpark-sign.jpg?fit=250%2C225&ssl=1)
![westernregionalpark-acrosscarrsmillroad Joe Byrnes](https://i0.wp.com/howardbirds.website/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/westernregionalpark-acrosscarrsmillroad.jpg?fit=250%2C225&ssl=1)
![westernregionalpark-pond3 Sue Earp](https://i0.wp.com/howardbirds.website/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/westernregionalpark-pond3.jpg?fit=250%2C225&ssl=1)
Great Blue Heron at back pond, entrance sign, across Carrs Mill Road, pond3
Shorebirds (and a duck)
![westernregional-REPH](https://i0.wp.com/howardbirds.website/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/westernregional-REPH.jpg?fit=150%2C150&ssl=1)
![westernregional-americangoldenplover](https://i0.wp.com/howardbirds.website/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/westernregional-americangoldenplover.jpg?fit=150%2C150&ssl=1)
![westernregional-GRYE-LEYE](https://i0.wp.com/howardbirds.website/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/westernregional-GRYE-LEYE.jpg?fit=150%2C150&ssl=1)
![westernregional-WRSA](https://i0.wp.com/howardbirds.website/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/westernregional-WRSA.jpg?fit=150%2C150&ssl=1)
![Western Regional Park](https://i0.wp.com/howardbirds.website/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/westernregional-LEYE.jpg?fit=150%2C150&ssl=1)
![westernregional-dunlin](https://i0.wp.com/howardbirds.website/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/westernregional-dunlin.jpg?fit=150%2C150&ssl=1)
![westernregional-STSA](https://i0.wp.com/howardbirds.website/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/westernregional-STSA.jpg?fit=150%2C150&ssl=1)
![westernregional-buffbreastedsandpiper](https://i0.wp.com/howardbirds.website/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/westernregional-buffbreastedsandpiper.jpg?fit=150%2C150&ssl=1)
![westernregional-SBDO](https://i0.wp.com/howardbirds.website/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/westernregional-SBDO.jpg?fit=150%2C150&ssl=1)
![westernregional-gadwall](https://i0.wp.com/howardbirds.website/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/westernregional-gadwall.jpg?fit=150%2C150&ssl=1)
Red Phalarope, American Golden-Plover, Greater and Lesser Yellowlegs, Lesser Yelllowlegs.
White-rumped Sandpiper, Dunlin, Stilt Sandpoper, Buff-breasted Sandpiper, Short-billed Dowitcher, Gadwall.
Amphibians
![westernregionalpark-easternredbackedsalamander Richard Orr](https://i0.wp.com/howardbirds.website/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/westernregionalpark-easternredbackedsalamander.jpg?fit=450%2C150&ssl=1)
![westernregional-bullfrog](https://i0.wp.com/howardbirds.website/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/westernregional-bullfrog.jpg?fit=150%2C150&ssl=1)
![Western Regional Park pond](https://i0.wp.com/howardbirds.website/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/westernregional-pickerelfrog.jpg?fit=150%2C150&ssl=1)
![Western Regional Park](https://i0.wp.com/howardbirds.website/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/westernregional-americantoad.jpg?fit=150%2C150&ssl=1)
Eastern Red-backed Salamander (lead-backed), Bull Frog, Pickerel Frog, American Toad.
Insects
![westernregional-easternamberwing](https://i0.wp.com/howardbirds.website/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/westernregional-easternamberwing.jpg?fit=150%2C150&ssl=1)
![Western Regional Park](https://i0.wp.com/howardbirds.website/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/westernregional-SLSP-1.jpg?fit=150%2C150&ssl=1)
![Western Regional Park](https://i0.wp.com/howardbirds.website/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/westernregional-florindacoccinea.jpg?fit=150%2C150&ssl=1)
![westernregional-blackblisterbeetle](https://i0.wp.com/howardbirds.website/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/westernregional-blackblisterbeetle.jpg?fit=150%2C150&ssl=1)
![Western Regional Park](https://i0.wp.com/howardbirds.website/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/westernregional-dottedwolfspider.jpg?fit=150%2C150&ssl=1)
![Western Regional Park](https://i0.wp.com/howardbirds.website/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/westernregional-ailanthuswebwormmoth.jpg?fit=150%2C150&ssl=1)
![Western Regional Park](https://i0.wp.com/howardbirds.website/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/westernregional-blacksaddlebags.jpg?fit=150%2C150&ssl=1)
![westernregional-wintercranefly](https://i0.wp.com/howardbirds.website/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/westernregional-wintercranefly.jpg?fit=150%2C150&ssl=1)
Eastern Amberwing (male), Slender Spreadwing (male), spiider (Florinda coccinea), Black Blistter Spider.
Dotted Wolf Spider, Ailanthus Webworm Moth, Black Saddlebags, Winter Crane (on ice).
Fungi
![westernregional-americanlepiota](https://i0.wp.com/howardbirds.website/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/westernregional-americanlepiota.jpg?fit=150%2C150&ssl=1)
![westernregional-blackstainingpolypore](https://i0.wp.com/howardbirds.website/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/westernregional-blackstainingpolypore.jpg?fit=150%2C150&ssl=1)
![westernregional-aaricusplacomyces](https://i0.wp.com/howardbirds.website/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/westernregional-aaricusplacomyces.jpg?fit=150%2C150&ssl=1)
![westernregional-wrinkledcappsathyrella](https://i0.wp.com/howardbirds.website/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/westernregional-wrinkledcappsathyrella.jpg?fit=150%2C150&ssl=1)
![Western Regional Park](https://i0.wp.com/howardbirds.website/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/westernregional-frostsbolete.jpg?fit=150%2C150&ssl=1)
![westernregional-mucilagocrustacea](https://i0.wp.com/howardbirds.website/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/westernregional-mucilagocrustacea.jpg?fit=150%2C150&ssl=1)
![westernregional-whiteeggbirdsnestfungus](https://i0.wp.com/howardbirds.website/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/westernregional-whiteeggbirdsnestfungus.jpg?fit=150%2C150&ssl=1)
![westernregional-tendernestingpolypore](https://i0.wp.com/howardbirds.website/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/westernregional-tendernestingpolypore.jpg?fit=150%2C150&ssl=1)
![westernregional-leccinellumalbellum](https://i0.wp.com/howardbirds.website/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/westernregional-leccinellumalbellum.jpg?fit=150%2C150&ssl=1)
![Western Regional Park](https://i0.wp.com/howardbirds.website/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/westernregional-fusedmarasmius.jpg?fit=150%2C150&ssl=1)
![Western Regional Park](https://i0.wp.com/howardbirds.website/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/westernregional-vasethelephora.jpg?fit=150%2C150&ssl=1)
![westernregional-leccinellumalbellum](https://i0.wp.com/howardbirds.website/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/westernregional-leccinellumalbellum.jpg?fit=150%2C150&ssl=1)
Reddening Lepiota, Black-staining Polypore, Agaricus placomyces, Wrinkled-cap Psathyrella, Frost’s Bolete, Mucilago crustacea.
White-egg Bird’s Nest Fungus, Tender Nesting Polypore, Buttery Collybia, Fused Marasmius, Vase Thelephora, Lecinellum albellum.
Butterflies
![Western Regional Park](https://i0.wp.com/howardbirds.website/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/westernregional-longtailedskipper-1.jpg?fit=150%2C150&ssl=1)
![westernregional-commoncheckeredskipper](https://i0.wp.com/howardbirds.website/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/westernregional-commoncheckeredskipper.jpg?fit=150%2C150&ssl=1)
![westernregional-COSO](https://i0.wp.com/howardbirds.website/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/westernregional-COSO.jpg?fit=150%2C150&ssl=1)
![westernregional-CLSK](https://i0.wp.com/howardbirds.website/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/westernregional-CLSK.jpg?fit=150%2C150&ssl=1)
![westernregional-LESK](https://i0.wp.com/howardbirds.website/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/westernregional-LESK.jpg?fit=150%2C150&ssl=1)
![Ellicott City](https://i0.wp.com/howardbirds.website/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/westernregional-FISK.jpg?fit=150%2C150&ssl=1)
![Western Regional Park](https://i0.wp.com/howardbirds.website/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/westernregional-whitemhairstreak.jpg?fit=150%2C150&ssl=1)
![westernregional-ETBL](https://i0.wp.com/howardbirds.website/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/westernregional-ETBL.jpg?fit=150%2C150&ssl=1)
![Western Regional Park](https://i0.wp.com/howardbirds.website/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/westernregional-meadowfritillary.jpg?fit=150%2C150&ssl=1)
![westernregional-quetionmark](https://i0.wp.com/howardbirds.website/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/westernregional-quetionmark.jpg?fit=150%2C150&ssl=1)
![westernregional-quetionmark](https://i0.wp.com/howardbirds.website/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/westernregional-quetionmark.jpg?fit=150%2C150&ssl=1)
![Western Regional Park](https://i0.wp.com/howardbirds.website/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/westernregional-easterncomma.jpg?fit=150%2C150&ssl=1)
![Rockburn Branch Park](https://i0.wp.com/howardbirds.website/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/westernregional-NOPE.jpg?fit=150%2C150&ssl=1)
![westernregional-cloudedsulphur](https://i0.wp.com/howardbirds.website/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/westernregional-cloudedsulphur-1.jpg?fit=150%2C150&ssl=1)
![Mount Pleasant](https://i0.wp.com/howardbirds.website/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/westernregional-cloudlesssulphur.jpg?fit=150%2C150&ssl=1)
![westernregional-littleyellow](https://i0.wp.com/howardbirds.website/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/westernregional-littleyellow.jpg?fit=150%2C150&ssl=1)
![Rockburn Branch Park](https://i0.wp.com/howardbirds.website/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/westernregional-sleepyOrange.jpg?fit=150%2C150&ssl=1)
![Mount Pleasant](https://i0.wp.com/howardbirds.website/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/westernregional-AMCO.jpg?fit=150%2C150&ssl=1)
![Mount Pleasant](https://i0.wp.com/howardbirds.website/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/westernregional-redbanded-hairstreak.jpg?fit=150%2C150&ssl=1)
![Meadowbrook Park](https://i0.wp.com/howardbirds.website/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/westernregional-TESK.jpg?fit=150%2C150&ssl=1)
![Western Regional Park](https://i0.wp.com/howardbirds.website/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/westernregional-DNSK.jpg?fit=150%2C150&ssl=1)
![Western Regional Park](https://i0.wp.com/howardbirds.website/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/westernregional-ocolaskipper.jpg?fit=150%2C150&ssl=1)
![Elkhorn Garden Plots](https://i0.wp.com/howardbirds.website/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/westernregional-pipevineswallowtail.jpg?fit=150%2C150&ssl=1)
![UMDCF](https://i0.wp.com/howardbirds.website/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/westernregional-blackswallowtail.jpg?fit=150%2C150&ssl=1)
![Gateway Business Park](https://i0.wp.com/howardbirds.website/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/westernregional-falcateorangetip.jpg?fit=150%2C150&ssl=1)
Long-Tailed Skipper, Common Checkered-Skipper, Common Sootywing, Couded Skipper, Least Skipper, Fiery Skipper.
Tawny-edged Skipper, Dun Skipper, Ocola Skipper, Pipevine Swallowtail, Black Swallowtail,Falcate Orangetip.
Clouded Sulphur, Cloudless Sulphur, Little Yellow, Sleepy Orange, American Copper, Red-banded Hairsteak.
White M Hairsteak, Eastern Tailed-Blue, Meadow Fritillary, Question Mark, Eastern Comma, Northern Pearly-eye.
(Not all of these photographs were taken in Western Regional Park, but all of these butterflies have been observed there.)