Must be my lucky day!  (I am wearing green after all.)  Had
a lone WILSON'S SNIPE resting in the agricultural fields
along the Paint Branch Stream Valley Park path in College
Park (quite close to the path actually, at the edge of a
muddy puddle, at the north end of the golf course, near the
swamp).  This is my first snipe for the area.  Saves me a 
trip to Centennial Park. :)

Other highlights today: RED-SHOULDERED HAWK (perched near 
the playing fields at Metzerott Rd), RED-TAILED HAWK (in the 
swamp), AMERICAN KESTREL (near the first bridge south of 
Cherry Hill Rd), BELTED KINGFISHER (a lone male at the 
swamp), two HAIRY WOODPECKERs (male & female), WINTER WREN 
(in the swamp), and my first BROWN-HEADED COWBIRDs in a 
while in the field just south of that first bridge (hanging 
out with robins, blackbirds, and starlings).

Definite signs of spring: robins calling, blackbird flocks 
returning, and geese staking out territory...

Good birding,

D

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Derek C. Richardson, Ph.D. (CANTAB) ________
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