Leakin Park 

Went atlasing this evening in Leakin Park, and found an active 
Eastern wood-pewee nest, with two young.  Both were visible 
even though the nest was 12 meters up.  Both parents repeatedly 
flew in to feed them.  The nest was exactly as the field guides 
depicted: out on a horizontal limb, squat and solid, covered with 
lichens and looking like a fungus.  Other birds including 5 Baltimore 
orioles, at least two of them immature males, a upset brown thrasher 
with a house wren within a foot of the bird also looking at us.   We 
also found our first fall warbler: a redstart.

Paul Kreiss
Baltimore City