Most of the summer residents were out enjoying the beautiful morning.
My only unusual sighting was a Red-tailed Hawk on the phone wire sw of
the MD121 bridge. In my experience, Red-tails are much less common at
LB than Red-shoulders (which I didn't see today).
Yellow Warblers are much less numerous this year than in recent years,
at least in the short stretch between the MD121 bridge and the parking
lot (which has always been good for 2 or 3 previously - none so far this
year), and also between the parking lot and the old school (FOY today,
and it was singing the song similar to that of a Hooded Warbler).
On the other hand, I seem to be hearing more Ovenbirds than ever before.
Bob Hartman
Silver Spring/Colesville
Turkey Vulture 1
Red-tailed Hawk 1
Mourning Dove 5
Yellow-billed Cuckoo 1
Downy Woodpecker 1
Hairy Woodpecker 1
Pileated Woodpecker 1
Eastern Wood-Pewee 5
Acadian Flycatcher 9
Eastern Phoebe 2
Great Crested Flycatcher 1
Tree Swallow 2
Barn Swallow 20
Carolina Wren 3
Gray Catbird 6
Eastern Bluebird 4
Wood Thrush 3
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher 4
Carolina Chickadee 1
Tufted Titmouse 3
White-breasted Nuthatch 2
Blue Jay 4
American Crow 10
White-eyed Vireo 6
Yellow-throated Vireo 2
Red-eyed Vireo 7
Northern Parula 3
Yellow Warbler 1
Prairie Warbler 2
American Redstart 1
Worm-eating Warbler 1
Ovenbird 10
Common Yellowthroat 6
Scarlet Tanager 4
Eastern Towhee 3
Chipping Sparrow 4
Field Sparrow 2
Northern Cardinal 6
Indigo Bunting 4
American Goldfinch 3 |