A beautiful morning in Patterson Park, deepest Baltimore. I took a 1-hour walk (7:30-8:30am) around the top MW corner and the boat lake. The "early season" spring migrants are really surging through now (they must know they're late!), with lots of hermit thrushes, towhees and thrashers around the garden plots and flocks of rubies in the trees nearby. The mid-season birds are starting to appear; the Orchard Oriole was a nice early surprise, singing away merrily.  The almost-complete list is:

Common Loon	1		Flying over, going N	
Black-crowned Night Heron	1		adult	
Wood Duck	2		Pair in tree	
American Coot	1			
Chimney Swift	3			
Downy Woodpecker	1			
Northern Flicker	2			
Eastern Kingbird	1			
Blue-headed Vireo	2			
Tree Swallow	10			
Ruby-crowned Kinglet	20			
Hermit Thrush	8			
American Robin	30			
Brown Thrasher	7			
Northern Parula	1		Male	
Yellow-rumped Warbler	4		Males	
Cardinal	1		male	
Eastern Towhee	7			
Orchard Oriole	1		Male singing	
American Goldfinch	3		singing	
House Finch	6		Males together	



David Curson, PhD
Director of Bird Conservation,
Audubon MD-DC,
2437 Eastern Avenue,
Baltimore  MD  21224
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