Greetings,

Today i spent the better half of three hours biridng at work (Edgewood Area
of APG -southern Harford County).  My target birds where gnatcatchers and
warblers. While I nixed on the gnatcatcher, I did fairly well with warblers
considering it is only April 16th. The most interesting bird of the day was
no doubt the pair(?) of Solitary Sandpipers (SOSA) that I found feeding in
an ephemeral pond on the horse pasture on post. The SOSA's were accompanied
by a single Killdeer and various blackbirds. So much for the being
solitary, huh....  Also of note was a lone Eastern Meadowlark seen perched
on a lone tree in a field.  For some reason Meadowlarks do not find
themselves in my bino's too often, so every meadowlark i see still excites
me.

Below you'll find a list of the migrant and not-so-common birds that I saw
today.

Red-breasted Merganser (12)
Red-tailed Hawk (1)
Sharp-shinned Hawk (1)
Bald Eagle (5)
Solitary Sandpiper (2)
Killdeer (1)
Bonaparte's gull (20)
Tree Swallow (scores)
Barn Swallow (8)
Eastern Bluebird (2)
Brown Creeper (2)
Ruby-crowned Kinglet (6)
Pine Warbler (4)
(Eastern) Palm Warbler (1)
Yellow-rumped Warbler (5)
Eastern Meadowlark (1)
Eastern Towhee (1)
Chipping Sparrow (6)
Song Sparrow (1)
White-throated Sparrow (4)
Dark-eyed Junco (18)
American Goldfich (5) -stunning in alternate plumage!

-as you can see we are still waiting for our big push of neo-tropical
migrants up here in northern MD....

Good Birding,
Chris Starling
North East, MD

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