Highlight today was a singing and very visible WORM-EATING 
WARBLER on the Paint Branch Stream Valley Park path (this is 
a "path bird" for me).  Also lots of first-of-year migrants 
for me (for the path, although the sandpipers and both 
orioles are also year birds).  Full report below!

D

Report Details
Location name: Paint Branch Stream Valley Park
Observation date: 4/26/06
Duration: 1 hour(s) 35 minute(s)
# of people in birding party: 1
Are you reporting all the species you identified? Yes
Total # of species: 39
Observation type: Traveling Count
Start time: 8:10 AM
Distance covered: 2.5 mile(s)
Area covered: N/A
Weather had a negative effect on my ability to collect 
birding information: No

Checklist diary notes:
Finally a chance to bird the path. Mostly cloudy, cool, with 
a light to moderate breeze. Top bird was Worm-eating 
Warbler, heard first then clearly seen in the forested area 
by the stream near the university. Other year birds for the 
path: Solitary Sandpiper (various locations), White-eyed 
Vireo (just beyond the southern edge of the forest at the 
north end of the trail), Red-eyed Vireo (various), Northern 
Parula (various), and both orioles (both singing, midway 
along the path---the Orchard Oriole was an immature male).

Species Details
Species Name Number Reported
Canada Goose 25
Mallard 1
Turkey Vulture 1
Cooper's Hawk 1
Red-shouldered Hawk 1
Killdeer 2
Solitary Sandpiper 4
Mourning Dove 6
Red-bellied Woodpecker 4
Downy Woodpecker 2
Northern Flicker 1
Eastern Kingbird 1
White-eyed Vireo 1
Red-eyed Vireo 4
Blue Jay 2
American Crow 1
Fish Crow 1
Northern Rough-winged Swallow 1
Barn Swallow 1
Carolina Chickadee 2
Carolina Wren 8
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher 5
American Robin 20
European Starling 10
Northern Parula 3
Yellow-rumped Warbler 3
Worm-eating Warbler 1
Common Yellowthroat 6
Eastern Towhee 6
Song Sparrow 5
White-throated Sparrow 20
Northern Cardinal 8
Red-winged Blackbird 15
Common Grackle 3
Brown-headed Cowbird 10
Orchard Oriole 1
Baltimore Oriole 1
American Goldfinch 25
House Sparrow 1

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