Cool and breezy today, but some good birds on the Paint 
Branch Stream Valley Park trail in College Park (PG County) 
nonetheless, including a singing male CANADA WARBLER near a 
singing male AMERICAN REDSTART, near the Cherry Hill Rd head 
of the trail.  Lots of waxwings around too.  Full report:

Report Details
Location name: Paint Branch Stream Valley Park
Observation date: 5/23/06
Duration: 1 hour(s) 0 minute(s)
# of people in birding party: 1
Are you reporting all the species you identified? Yes
Total # of species: 44
Observation type: Traveling Count
Start time: 8:50 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:
Clear, cool, breezy. Highlight was a singing male Canada 
Warbler with a singing male American Redstart. Lots of 
waxwings.

Species Details
Species Name Number Reported
Canada Goose 55
Mallard 7
Great Blue Heron 1
Green Heron 2
Turkey Vulture 1
Red-shouldered Hawk 1
Killdeer 1
Solitary Sandpiper 1
Spotted Sandpiper 2
Mourning Dove 20
Red-bellied Woodpecker 2
Downy Woodpecker 2
Northern Flicker 1
Eastern Kingbird 1
White-eyed Vireo 1
Red-eyed Vireo 3
crow sp. 3
Barn Swallow 1
Carolina Chickadee 7
Tufted Titmouse 3
Carolina Wren 5
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher 3
Eastern Bluebird 1
American Robin 10
Gray Catbird 3
Northern Mockingbird 1
European Starling 25
Cedar Waxwing 30
Blackpoll Warbler 2
American Redstart 1
Common Yellowthroat 5
Canada Warbler 1
Yellow-breasted Chat 1
Eastern Towhee 1
Song Sparrow 5
Northern Cardinal 9
Indigo Bunting 3
Red-winged Blackbird 10
Common Grackle 30
Brown-headed Cowbird 2
Orchard Oriole 1
Baltimore Oriole 3
American Goldfinch 5
House Sparrow 1

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