Highlights of some Talbot County sightings: At 6:45 p.m. today, April 10th, the metallic clink sound from near the top of a walnut tree beside my driveway drew my attention to the arrival of a Blue Grosbeak - the first of this season for me, and nearly a full month earlier than the 1998 and 1997 first arrivals here (May 6th for both years). A Chipping Sparrow is at my feeder as this is being written,(7:15 on Apr 10th); but though unreported previously, my first had come on March 24th. One Blue-grey Gnatcatcher was in my yard this morning. Yesterday,4/09, near Bozman, MD, the following were sighted: Purple Martin (1) Barn Swallow (1) Brown Thrasher (2) Common Loon (10) Northern Harrier (1) Les Roslund Easton, MD