Pete Webb and I spent about 4 hours at the North Tract of Patuxent NWR today, with lots of personal firsts of the season, including, finally, both Orioles, Indigo Bunting, and Blue Grosbeak, and Scarlet Tanager, plus my 2nd Summer Tanager. At one point we drove past a side road and I glimpsed what was probably a rusty old oil drum, but I just wondered... I backed up, and it was indeed a displaying male Wild Turkey, tail fully spread, with a coy hen on the other side of the fence. A partial list (* = personal first-of-season): Wood Duck Hooded Merganser 2 Red-should Hawk Red-tailed Hawk Wild Turkey* 2 Spotted Sandpiper 2 E Kingbird 4 Purple Martin* 1 Tree Swallow dozens N Rgh-wng Swallow 5 Barn Swallow Eastern Bluebird lots (10-15) Wood Thrush Gray Catbird White-Eyed Vireo Yel-thrtd Vireo* 2 Red-Eyed Vireo Northern Parula Yellow Warbler 1 Myrtle Warbler Pine Warbler Prairie Warbler lots 10+ Blk & Wt Warbler 3+ American Redstart* 10 Prothonotary Warb 3 (one seen very well near end of west loop road) Worm-eating Warbler* 1 Ovenbird Kentucky Warbler * 1 Com Yellowthroat Hooded Warbler Yel-brstd Chat 1 Summer Tanager 1 Scarlet Tanager* 1 Blue Grosbeak* 2 Indigo Bunting* 3 Orchard Oriole* 3 Baltimore Oriole* 1 Also, at Milford Mill Park, Balto Co, we had my first Black-thrt Blue (2) and Chestnut-sided (1) Warblers. Pete had a Rose-br Grosbeak at a feeder in his yard this morning, but we didn't get any in the field. -- Steve Sanford Randallstown MD tanager@bcpl.net