Hey everyone, got my first-of-the-season BLUE-GRAY 
GNATCATCHERS and (confirmed) PALM WARBLERS on the Paint 
Branch Stream Valley Park trail today.  Also had my first 
MALLARD ducklings!  Twelve in a row bobbing in the golf 
course ponds as they followed their mother.  Other nice 
birds included BROWN THRASHER (both in the morning and the 
afternoon), some afternoon CEDAR WAXWINGS, and morning 
flyover WOOD DUCKS.  Here are the high counts for the day:

Canada Goose 18
Wood Duck 2
Mallard 16
Great Blue Heron 1
Red-shouldered Hawk 1
Killdeer 1
Mourning Dove 10
Red-bellied Woodpecker 4
Downy Woodpecker 5
Northern Flicker 3
Pileated Woodpecker 1
Eastern Phoebe 2
Blue Jay 4
American Crow 6
Fish Crow 2
Carolina Chickadee 5
Tufted Titmouse 5
Carolina Wren 6
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher 7
American Robin 30
Northern Mockingbird 3
Brown Thrasher 1
European Starling 15
Cedar Waxwing 10
Yellow-rumped Warbler 1
Palm Warbler 5
Eastern Towhee 4
Field Sparrow 5
Fox Sparrow 1
Song Sparrow 10
White-throated Sparrow 50
Northern Cardinal 25
Red-winged Blackbird 10
Common Grackle 1
Brown-headed Cowbird 10
American Goldfinch 20

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Derek C. Richardson, College Park, PG County, MD
http://www.astro.umd.edu/~dcr/Archives/Photos/birds.html