Blue Mash Nature Trail - 12:00 to 3:00 p.m - Oct 21, 20004
        Tom - I must have been following your tracks.  Rain had paused at
noon, but heavy mist was getting pretty bad by the time I left.  I had never
previously visited this trail, for it did not exist during my 40 years of
living in Montgomery County.  Mid-afternoon on a rainy day is hardly
optimum, but I was 'across the bridge' for other reasons, and birded this
day because this was the day I was there.
        I felt the place was Very Birdy! Having never birded there before, I
will go ahead and report my total list.

Great Blue Heron - 2
Turkey Vulture
Canada Goose - many
Wood Duck - 1
Sharp-shinned Hawk
Killdeer
Mourning Dove
Red-bellied Woodpecker
Downy Woodpecker
Northern Flicker
Eastern Phoebe - 2
PHILADELPHIA VIREO - 1 (in the parking lot as I was leaving)
Blue Jay
American Crow
Carolina Chickadee
Tufted Titmouse
Carolina Wren
WINTER WREN - 1 (at the beginning of the wooded section after passing
through the gate in the fence on the 'loop' trail)
Ruby-crowned Kinglet - 5+
SWAINSON'S THRUSH - 1 (near the Winter Wren)
American Robin
Catbird
Mockingbird
Starling
Yellow-rumped Warbler - many
Palm Warbler - 2 (yellow)
Eastern Towhee
Field Sparrow - 5
Savannah Sparrow - 2
Song Sparrow - 30+
Swamp Sparrow - 13
White-throated Sparrow - 60+
White-crowned Sparrow - 7
Northern Cardinal
Indigo Bunting - 2
Red-winged Blackbird 
PURPLE FINCH - 3
House Finch - many
Goldfinch - many

I greatly enjoyed all the sparrows, and especially liked often having three
species in the binocs view at the same time. The Purple Finches were the
first for me this autumn.  The Philadelphia Vireo was the first I have seen
since 1983 - so I was particularly pleased with that one.  I am not pleased
to find that I obviously failed to identify the Lincoln's Sparrows that Tom
saw in the morning.
        My thanks to Rick S for telling me how to find the trail.
Les Roslund

Talbot County
Easton MD 21601