Today  as I had to  to go into work for about 1 hour this morning  at the 
Wye Research Center near Queenstown   afterwards I decided to bird the area 
as well as Wye Island  . I  came across George Radcliffe  and some of his 
Centreville Middle School  birdiers  at the Wye island  bridge  . We were 
talking about  Least  Terns being due in the area when 2 of them flew by in 
the distance as if on cue  . Some highlights

DC  Cormorant 1
Mute Swan   1
Mallard        1 male
Lesser Scaup     2   of which 1 was   male and 1  female  Wye Island  Bridge
Snowy Egret   2  wye Island Bridge  my year first
Great Blue Heron     1
Green Heron    2  at  a pond at  Wye Research Center     years first
Greater Yellowleggs      1  Wye Island
Lesser Yellowleggs        1 Wye Island
Osprey   at least  8
Bald Eagle       1 immature
Red Tailed Hawk   1
Turkey   Vultrue     10
Foresters Tern      1      Wye Island  Bridge
Least  Tern      2        wye Island  Bridge       new for the year
Red Bellied  Woodpecker   1
Downey  woodpecker     1
Cedar Waxwing    20      appeared to be eating flower buds from wild cherrys
Mockingbird     2
Brown Thrasher    2
Horned Lark       3
Red Eyed Vireo    1     Wye Island    heard only  first of year
White Eyed Vireo     1 heard  Wye Island   first of the year
Cardinal      3
Blue Grosbeak       1 male  Wye Island       1    female    Wye Research 
Center
Savannha Sparrow    2     Wye Research Center
Orchard Oriole        1  adult male   heard fussing  and seen  first for the 
year


Happy Birding
Danny Poet
Queenstown ,  MD