During my lunch break, I birded Bladensburg Waterfront Park in Prince
George's County. It was one of those afternoons that made it particularly
hard to drag myself back into the office.
There were a lot of migrants around, particularly sparrows. Most of the
sparrow activity was across the river from the marina, where a gravel road
veers off the bike trail and heads uphill a brief way, before ending at a
dried impoundment. In that area, were THREE Vesper Sparrows (the most I've
seen during migration in MD), a large flock of Chipping Sparrows and
Dark-eyed Juncos, which were all very vocal and bathing in the puddles left
over from the recent rain, and a singing Grasshopper Sparrow. The
Grasshopper sparrow is the first arrival for the Mid-Atlantic, as far as
eBird is concerned.
Notable non-sparrow migrants included 11 Caspian Terns (9 which were flying
north, nearly 300 ft up in the air), 2 Bonaparte's Gulls, 1 Merlin, 1
Northern Harrier, and 3 Yellow Palm Warblers.
My full list is here: http://ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist?subID=S13720713
Rob Ostrowski
Silver Spring, MD
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