A damp wander in lousy light along the pathway from the consesssion  stand to 
the dam this morning from 7 to 9 a.m.  Had a COMMON LOON in near  full 
alternate plumage, 5 Double Crested Cormorants (4 flyovers and one on the  lake), a 
GREEN HERON, 2 Ruddy Ducks (a pair, the male nearly in full breeding  finery), 
2 Ruby-crowned Kinglets, a singing YELLOW WARBLER, a (yellow) Palm  Warbler 
and at least 50 wildly foraging Yellow-rumps.  Also saw and heard  my first 
BALTIMORE ORIOLE of the year.
 
Others seen:
 
  1 Great Blue Heron
15 Canada Goose
11 Mallard
 5  Mourning Dove
 2  Red-bellied Woodpecker
 1  Downy Woodpecker
 2  Northern Flicker
 1  Eastern Phoebe
10 Tree Swallow
 5  Northern Rough-winged Swallow
25 Barn Swallow (or more)
 1  Brown Thrasher
 7  American Robin
 2  Carolina Chickadee
 4  Tufted Titmouse
 2  Fish Crow
 1  American Crow
 4  European Starling
 1  Eastern Towhee (female)
 7  Song Sparrow
 6  White-throated Sparrow (all heard, not seen)
 9  Northern Cardinal
12 Red-winged Blackbird
12 Common Grackle
 8  American Goldfinch
 1  House Sparrow
 
Louis Nielsen  
Reisterstown, MD