This a.m., I led a trip for Montgomery Bird Club to Hughes Hollow and 
Violette's Lock. Thanks to a heads-up by Bill Hubick and Hans 
Holbrook and Co.--who had found the bird after we must have walked 
right past it earlier--we tried a second time for the Hughes Hollow 
sora and got great looks at mid-a.m. (Surely the trip's highlight.)

One accommodating red-headed woodpecker also allowed us to see all 
seven expected woodpecker species (adult sapsucker was the final at 
Violette's). At Hughes Hollow, a single eastern kingbird early in the 
a.m. (chased a red-winged blackbird as if it owned the place) and one 
heard house wren, along with three green herons, were sure signs of 
spring. In the warbler department, we had three yellow palm warblers, 
heard one northern parula warbler (Violette's) and one Louisiana 
waterthrush (Violette's). Also four broad-winged hawks over Violette's.

Howard Youth

Bethesda, MD