Highlights from my cold morning walk around Schoolhouse Pond included 
close views of a beautiful Fox Sparrow among many White-throats and Song 
Sparrows, close views of a Golden-crowned Kinglet, a flyover adult Bald 
Eagle (at first light), and a perched Sharp-shinned Hawk.  Also present 
was an Eastern Towhee, Red-bellied Woodpecker, Downy Woodpecker, many 
Robins (flyovers and in trees), and flyover Laughing, Ring-billed, and 
Herring Gulls.  Yesterday there were 10 Northern Shovelers and 2 Gadwall, 
but I could not locate them this morning.

Fred Shaffer
Patuxent MOS