I have yet to see too many arriving "spring/summer" birds, but Ft. Bayard has been great lately for departing "winter" birds.  Today's highlight was a RED-BREASTED NUTHATCH, a park first for me.  While I was watching it work the pine cones (and kick up yellow clouds of pine pollen), a YELLOW-BELLIED SAPSUCKER flew in nearby.  Both birds were females.

Otherwise the birds were largely the same today--PURPLE FINCHES are here for the fourth straight day (today I saw 3-4, all brown), and again had singing Yellow-rumps (no other warblers) and Ruby-crowned Kinglets.

The one bona fide new arrival today was a flyover Barn Swallow--first of the spring, on the same date as last year's.

Jason Waanders
NW DC
jwaandersATstarpower.net