Listened to a Louisiana Waterthrush chipping and singing along the 
Kingsley trail at Little Bennett this morning around 11:15 AM -- I finally 
caught a glimpse of him as he flew upstream. Later, a LOWA was singing 
just downstream of the bridge by the schoolhouse. It's now officially 
springtime for me! :)

Other birds included an Eastern phoebe, at least two Red-shouldered hawks, 
Red-bellied/Hairy/Downy woodpeckers, and Field/Song/White-throated 
sparrows and juncos.

I also watched a pair of White-breasted nuthatches possibly working on 
their nest cavity -- they kept returning with either nesting material or 
insects to the same spot on the far side of a tree (thus I couldn't get a 
decent look at the cavity itself). Everything I've read says that the 
female builds the nest, but as both the male and female frequently 
returned to this spot, I wonder if they were "bill-sweeping" with insects.

Jessica Maggio
Damascus, MD