Jim Stasz and I drove out to Western Maryland friday night and birded Garrett all day saturday and sunday morning.  The highlights from the trip are show below:

SATURDAY 5/7/05
FINZEL (Morning):
Sora  2
Great Horned Owl  2  - a dueting pair moving up the ridge
Northern Waterthrush  1

PINEY RES:
Lesser Scaup  1
Hooded Merganser  1
Double-crested Cormorant  2
Great Blue Heron  2
Bald Eagle  1 - 3rd or 4th year bird
Osprey  4
Lesser Yellowlegs  2
Least Sandpiper  1
Myrtle Warlber  2

MEADOW LAKE:
Ring-necked Duck  1
Green Heron  1
Spotted Sandpiper  5

WEST SHALE RD.:
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher  3
Black-throated Green Warbler  1
Chestnut-sided Warbler  1

NEW GERMANY:
Wood Thrush  2
Myrtle Warbler  1
Black-throated Green Warbler  2
Blackburnian Warbler  3
Black-and-white Warbler  1
Ovenbird  2
Blue-headed Vireo  1
Northern Parula  3
Red-breasted Nuthatch  1

WOLF SWAMP:
Common Loon  1 - flew in calling, stayed for 10 minutes or so, then left calling
Solitary Sandpiper  1
Killdeer  1
Barred Owl  1
Chestnut-sided Warbler  2

4H CAMP:
Common Raven  1
Red-breasted Nuthatch  2
Western Palm Warbler  1
House Finch  2
RED CROSSBILL  1 - refer to next post
Pine Siskin  2 - singing
American Goldfinch  3

SEWAGE PLANT:
Ruddy Duck  1
Solitary Sandpiper  1
Spotted Sandpiper  1
Upland Sandpiper  3
Baltimore Oriole  1
Eastern Meadowlark  8
Savannah Sparrow  2

COMBINATION RD:
House Wren  1
Eastern Meadowlark  8
Henslow's Sparrow  1

FINZEL (Evening):
Sora  3
Osprey  1
Great Horned Owl  1, maybe 2 - probably same pair as in morning

SUNDAY 5/8/05
NE GARRETT (roadside birding):
Ruffed Grouse  2
Blue-headed Vireo  3
Red-eyed Vireo  1
Common Raven  4
Red-breasted Nuthatch  1
White-breasted Nuthatch  2
Veery  1
Chestnut-sided Warbler  5
Black-throated Blue Warbler  1
Myrtle Warlber  2
Black-throated Green Warbler  25
Blackburnian Warbler  6
Worm-eating Warbler  1
Ovenbird  9
Louisiana Waterthush  2
Common Yellowthroat 3
Scarlet Tanager  3
Bobolink  1

ROCKY GAP SP:
Common Loon  1
Killdeer 6
Bonaparte's Gull  3  - full alternate plummage
Willow Flycatcher  1
Warbling Vireo  1
Western Palm Warbler  1
White-crowned Sparrow  4


Mike Burchett
Churchville, MD
Harford Co.