Hi all, This is the Wildfowl Trust of North America at Horsehead Wetlands Center in Grasonville, Queens Anne County MD report for today. This is the third reports this year. Birds seen: 1 Double-crested Cormorant 1 Am. Bittern (seen at 7:30am at SW corner of Lake Knapp) 1 Least Bittern (same as above, but flush out and disappear) 1 Great Blue Heron (flyby) 1 Great Egret (flyby) 2 Snowy Egret 6 Green-backed Heron 6 Mute Swan 75 Canada Geese (each pair had 1, 6, 6, 8 goslings, rest are in eggs) 12 Wood Duck (a pair with 8 ducklings) 58 Mallard (no ducklings, but some hens seen at nests) 6 Am. Black Duck 1 Gadwall (drake is mated with a Mallard hen) 4 Turkey Vulture 1 Black Vulture 6 Osprey (all three female at nests) 1 Bald Eagle (adult) 1 Virginia Rail (flushed out from under boardwalk) 2 Killdeer (nest with three eggs found on private road with gravel) 1 Solitary Sandpiper (Woodland Pond) 1 Spotted Sandpiper (Chesapeake Bay Pond) 1 Least Sandpiper (beach & mudflat at end of boardwalk in am) 1 Pectoral Sandpiper (same as above) 1 Short-billed Dowitcher (same as above) 1 Baird's Sandpiper (beach & mudflat at end of boardwalk in am & pm) 2 Willet (same as above) 2 Herring Gull 2 Great Black-backed Gull 7 Common Tern 2 Forster's Tern 3 Least Tern 8 Mourning Dove 1 Great Horned Owl 1 N. Flicker 1 E. Kingbird 16 Tree Swallow 4 N. Rough-winged Swallow 40 Barn Swallow 11 Am. Crow 6 Fish Crow 1 Blue Jay 7 Carolina Chickadee 1 Carolina Wren 1 House Wren 5 Am. Robin 12 Gray Catbird 11 N. Mockingbird 1 Brown Thrasher 49 Eurpoean Starling 1 White-eyed Vireo (Marshy Creek Trail) 2 Yellow Warbler 1 Magnolia Warbler (Marshy Creek Trail) 20 Yellow-rumped Warbler (in all woods area) 1 Yellow-throated Warbler (Marshy Creek Trail) 5 Pine Warbler (both Piney Point Path & Marshy Creek Trail) 8 C. Yellowthroat (Visitor Center Pond and nearby ponds and marshes) 10 N. Cardinal 1 Blue Grosbeak 2 E. Towhee 2 Song Sparrow 5 Swamp Sparrow 50 RW Blackbird 17 C. Grackle 6 BH Cowbird 28 Am. Goldfinch Pretty slow this week compare to same time last May with 75 species. Kevin Graff Baltimore, MD ggraff@erols.com