Four of us (Dennis Boles, Lisa Garrett, Mike Sampson, and I) met for the monthly Bowie Wild Bird Center walk this morning.  We visited the section of the B & A Trail and Patuxent River Park/NRMA between Race Track Road and the Patuxent River with Horsepen Branch to our South.

Birds observed follow:
Great Blue Heron
Green Heron
Wood Duck
Turkey Vulture
Black Vulture
Red-shouldered Hawk
Red-tailed Hawk
Mourning Dove
Yellow-billed Cuckoo
Chimney Swift
Ruby-throated Hummingbird
Belted Kingfisher
Red-bellied Woodpecker
Downy Woodpecker
Hairy Woodpecker
Northern Flicker
Pileated Woodpecker
Eastern Wood-Pewee
Acadian Flycatcher
Eastern Phoebe
Great Crested Flycatcher
Eastern Kingbird
Red-eyed Vireo
White-eyed Vireo
Blue Jay
Barn Swallow
Tufted Titmouse
Carolina Chickadee
White-breasted Nuthatch
Carolina Wren
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
Eastern Bluebird
American Robin
Wood Thrush
Gray Catbird
Northern Mockingbird
European Starling
Cedar Waxwing
Common Yellowthroat
Scarlet Tanager
Northern Cardinal
Indigo Bunting
Eastern Towhee
Chipping Sparrow
Song Sparrow
Red-winged Blackbird
Common Grackle
Orchard Oriole
House Finch
American Goldfinch
House Sparrow

Not birds:
Eastern Cottontail
Painted Turtle
American Toad
Southern Leopard Frog
Green Frog
Northern Cricket Frog
Gray Treefrog Tadpoles
Monarch
Red-spotted Purple
Wood Nymph
Eastern Tailed Blue
Red-banded Hairstreak
Silver-spotted Skipper
Northern Cloudywing
Horace's Duskywing
Luna Moth Caterpillar
Dragon Hunter
a Saddlebags
Great Blue Skimmer
Slaty Skimmer
Widow Skimmer
Eastern Pondhawk
Blue Dasher
Common Whitetail
Ebony Jewelwing

Meghan Tice
Bowie, Prince George's County
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