Hi everybody,
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Wow, what a day!� Like a lot of folks, I experienced a good showing in my 3/4 acre yard today.� I've picked up 8 new year yard birds today.
It started out this morning with a nice male Blue-winged Warbler.� Then, a Swamp Sparrow popped up out of one of my brush piles!� This
is just my 5th record for my property in the 16 years I've been here.� Shortly thereafter, I heard a Scarlet Tanager sing.
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Another visit in my yard after breakfast provided my first�Common Yellowthroat (an adult male) for this year.� Then, I heard a Yellow-breasted Chat!�
This is a brand new bird for my yard and became # 140.� Other visits later in the afternoon produced�"the regulars", but, the show was not over just yet.�
I went back out into the yard around 3:30 (just after a 5-8 minute shower) and, woa, lots of activity for about 5 minutes.� In that 5 minutes, (it had started
to rain again),�I had:��1 Red-eyed Vireo, 2 male Northern Parulas, 1 male Yellow Warbler, 2 adult male American Redstarts, 2 Yellow-rumped
Warblers & 1 male Black-and-white Warbler.� So, a total of 8 warbler species for today!
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Peter Osenton
Jessup, Md. (A. A. Co.)
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