Of the five active nests on Windsor Mill Road 
across from the Leakin Park trail head that remained 
when the dust settled this year, one has a visible 
nestling.  We saw two adults at the nest and a head
visible above the nest. 

Also, we took a short trip to Gwynn Oak Park on Thursday 
and found an Eastern Kingbird nest and Cedar Waxwings at 
a very early stage of nest-building.  One bird was wrapping 
a piece of what might have been fishing line around a tree 
limb.  You do wonder how the birds ever get done; the beginning 
stage of nest-building looks so awkward.   We also found 
our first Kildeer within safe dates, and four Great Blue Herons, 
including two flying in together, and happened to see a fifth 
further downstream on our way home.  We have hopes of finding
nests at some point. There was also a Black-crowned Night Heron.

Also, I was very surprised this Friday to see a Kildeer in the 
parking lot of a Rockville strip mall just west of Parklawn on 
Randolph Road.  All you ever see there are House Sparrows 
and Starlings.    


Elise Kreiss
Baltimore City, Maryland