I spent three hours at Piney Run Park yesterday morning and ran into two flocks of warblers, perhaps 25 birds total, the most individuals I have seen this fall though a third of them remained unidentified. Here is a partial list of birds seen:

Black Duck  1, first of the fall
Pewee  2 heard
Great Crested Flycatcher  1 heard
Unidentified small flycatcher  2
White-eyed Vireo  1 heard singing
Red-eyed Vireo  1 heard whining
Red-breasted Nuthatch  2
House Wren  2
Wood Thrush  2 heard
Catbird  15
Brown Thrasher  2
Chestnut-sided Warbler  1
Magnolia Warbler  3
MYRTLE WARBLER  1, only one day off the county early arrival record
Black-throated Green Warbler  2
Palm Warbler  2 westerns
Bay-breasted Warbler  2
Blackpoll Warbler  1
Black-&-white Warbler  2
Yellowthroat  3
Scarlet Tanager  1
Rose-breasted Grosbeak  3
Indigo Bunting  4
--
Bob Ringler
Eldersburg MD