Did some birding from home today and was rewarded with 3 new 
yard birds (Double-crested Cormorant, Yellow-rumped Warbler, 
and BLACKPOLL WARBLER), and 2 first-of-season birds (EASTERN 
WOOD-PEWEE and ORCHARD ORIOLE).  That puts our yard list at 
64 species since moving in last summer.  I'd probably be 
finding more too, if I weren't spending so much time at Rock 
Creek Park (see you there tomorrow!).

Full eBird report (a high day count for our yard: 34 
species):

Location:     Home (Laurel MD)
Observation date:     5/2/07
Time: 06h45-18h15

Notes:  06h45 (57F, mostly cloudy, calm)-09h45 (70F, mostly 
sunny, light breeze): DCR (3), FER (2); 09h45-18h15 (77F, 
partly cloudy, light breeze): DCR (2).  Concentrated effort 
today, rewarded with 3 yard birds (cormorant, Yellow-rumped, 
Blackpoll) and 2 first-of-season birds (pewee, Orchard 
Oriole).  Also saw 6 Eastern Gray Squirrels (including 1 
black morph), 1 with injured right forelimb.

Number of species:     34

Canada Goose     2     flyover
Double-crested Cormorant     1     yard bird! (flyover)
Mourning Dove     5
Ruby-throated Hummingbird     1
Red-bellied Woodpecker     2
Downy Woodpecker     3
Hairy Woodpecker     1
Eastern Wood-Pewee     1     heard only, first of season
Blue Jay     20     many flyovers
American Crow     3     1 with some gray on wings
Carolina Chickadee     2
Tufted Titmouse     2
White-breasted Nuthatch     1
Carolina Wren     1
House Wren     1
Wood Thrush     1     heard only
American Robin     6     1 building a nest in the wysteria
Gray Catbird     1
Northern Mockingbird     1
European Starling     3
Yellow-rumped Warbler (Myrtle)      3     yard bird!  maybe 5?
Blackpoll Warbler     1     yard bird!
Eastern Towhee     1     heard only
Chipping Sparrow     1     heard only
Song Sparrow     1
White-throated Sparrow     3     1 with injured left leg
Northern Cardinal     5
Common Grackle     4
Brown-headed Cowbird     3
Orchard Oriole     1     first of season, 1st-summer male
Baltimore Oriole     1
House Finch     7     nestlings begging
American Goldfinch     4
House Sparrow     3

This report was generated automatically by eBird v2
(http://www.ebird.org)

-- 
Derek C. Richardson, Ph.D. (CANTAB) ________
Astronomy, U Maryland, College Park MD 20742
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