Chapman Forest, Charles County; Sunday, 13 June 2004; 44 bird species

Canada Goose - heard
Mallard - one pair on the Potomac
Great Blue Heron - Potomac edge and overhead
Green Heron - near Potomac in swamp
[Turkey Vulture - 2 en route]
Osprey - Potomac
Bald Eagle - Two beautiful adults seen - Mt. Aventine field and Potomac swamp
Mourning Dove
Yellow-billed Cuckoo
Chimney Swift
Red-bellied Woodpecker
Downy
Hairy
Northern Flicker
Pileated
Eastern Wood Pewee
Acadian Flycatcher
Eastern Phoebe
Great Crested Flycatcher
Red-eyed Vireo
Blue Jay
American Crow
Fish Crow
[Barn Swallow - seen swooping along a road nearby Chapman/apparently nesting under a road  
overpass over a creek]
Carolina Chickadee
Tufted Titmouse
White-breasted Nuthatch
Carolina Wren
Wood Thrush
American Robin
Northern Mockingbird
European Starling - one seen in yard across Chapman Landing Road from Mt. Aventine gate
Northern Parula
Yellow-throated Warbler - pines at utility easement, north side
Pine Warbler - pines at utility easement, north side
Prothonotary Warbler - near Potomac in swamp
Ovenbird
Hooded Warbler
Scarlet Tanager
Chipping Sparrow - near Mt. Aventine gate
Northern Cardinal
Indigo Bunting - one family with fledglings was observed calling to one another while moving about in  
a hedge at the edge of a field and woods - the male sang a bit in a tree nearby before swooping in to  
the family scene
Red-winged Blackbird - near Potomac in swamp
Common Grackle - overhead [and in yard nearby Chapman]
[Brown-headed Cowbirds - in yard nearby Chapman]
Baltimore Oriole - Mt. Aventine field
American Goldfinch

Not birds:
Eastern Tailed Blue - all over Mt. Aventine field
Cabbage White
Sulphur sp.
Zebra Swallowtail
Tiger Swallowtail
Carrion Beetle
Ant Lion
Common Whitetail
Great Blue Skimmer
Spring Peepers - young all over the place + 3 adults
Gray Treefrog - heard
Green Frog - several heard in Potomac swamp
Southern Leopard Frog - 2 young ones
American Toad - many
Box Turtle
Mud Turtle - 3 crushed/decayed shells - mown edge of field
Chipmunk
Gray Squirrel
Deer

The morning started off well as a family of Hairy Woodpeckers with fledged young chatted to one  
another here at home in Bowie.  Also a chipmunk ran sniffing across the deck rail.

Meghan Tice
Bowie, Prince George's County