In my mother's yard in Aspen Park, Pasadena:
(along with the usual House Sparrows and European Starlings)
Cooper's Hawk flyover
Red-tailed Hawk being chased by a crow - flyover
2 Ospreys circling and chirping
Mourning Dove
Downy Woodpecker visiting a suet feeder
Tree Swallow flyover
House Wrens - they have a nest in a box in the front yard river birch
American Robin
Song Sparrow
Northern Cardinal
Common Grackle
House Finch
American Goldfinch
Visit to Down's Park on the Bay @ 6:15 - 8:00:
Double-crested Cormorant - 1 flying along shore over the bay
Green Heron - 1 on the pond
Black-crowned Night-Heron - 1 on the pond
Osprey - 1 on nest at the platform
Ring-billed Gull - 1 flying along shore over the bay
Common Nighthawk - @5 flyover toward dusk
Chimney Swift
Downy Woodpecker
Hairy Woodpecker
Great Crested Flycatcher
Red-eyed Vireo
White-eyed Vireo
Blue Jay
Tree Swallow
Barn Swallow
Carolina Chickadee
Carolina Wren
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
American Robin
Swainson's Thrush
Cedar Waxwing - lots
Northern Cardinal
Brown-headed Cowbird
Red-winged Blackbird
Common Grackle
Baltimore Oriole - beautiful male
American Goldfinch
Not Birds:
Green Frog
Bullfrog
Painted Turtle
Snapping Turtle
Gray Squirrel plural
In Bloom:
lots of sedges
Soft Rush
Blue Toadflax
Lyre-leaved Sage
Fetterbush
Deerberry
After-dark Additions to Horsepen Branch in Bowie:
Gray Treefrog
Barred Owl - heard and then seen nearby
Meghan Tice
Bowie, Prince George's County
Visiting Pasadena, Anne Arundel County
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