We took a walk in Leakin Park late Sunday morning. 
Highlights included a pair of Red-tailed hawks circling 
together in the sky. A Red-tail also passed not far over 
our heads across Hilltop Road near the Carrie Murray Center. 
As we watched it, we were distracted by piteous calls of 
distress coming from about two feet off the ground in a 
hollowed-out tree snag. Whatever it was, it sounded young 
and upset; and we didn't hang around to make its life more 
stressful. We heard a Fox Sparrow singing off Weatheredsville 
Road, and pished up 2 on the same branch. We also found 
male and female Hairy Woodpeckers working the same trees 
together in Winans Meadows; something we haven't been able 
to do within the safe dates, which I believe begin March 15 
for this species. Surprisingly, this was the first time we stopped 
to draw a map of the Yellow-crowned Night Heron nests since 
the trees dropped all their leaves. There was six nests - one 
more than I expected.   
 
Four Black Vultures flew over the house, yesterday. 
 
Elise Kreiss
Baltimore City
 
March 13, 2005
Red-shouldered Hawk
Red-tailed Hawk
Ring-billed Gull
Red-bellied Woodpecker
Downy Woodpecker
Hairy Woodpecker
Flicker
American Crow
Carolina Chickadee
Tufted Titmouse
White-breasted Nuthatch
Carolina Wren
American Robin
European Starling
Northern Cardinal
Eastern Towhee
Fox Sparrow
Song Sparrow
White-throated Sparrow
Junco
House Finch
Goldfinch