At Blue Mash this morning, I was the only one not singing.  (If I had 
been singing,there would not have been any birds there.)  Only surprises 
were a Spotted Sandpiper and a male Scarlet Tanager.  The tanager was 
only a surprise because it was out in the scrub, opposite the building 
behind the fence.  I normally see them in big trees, in rather deep woods.

Can someone tell me how unusual the Spotty is at this time of year?  I 
haven't replaced my Yellow Book since giving it to my son.  (He was so 
impressed with it that he wants to try to stimulate something like it 
for the Upper Texas Coast.)

Surprising misses: no raptors, no vultures, no Barn Swallows.  I didn't 
encounter a Red-eyed Vireo until I had gone all the way around the 
trail, at which point there was one singing right over my car.

List below.

	Bob Hartman
	Silver Spring/Colesville


Great Blue Heron               1
Green Heron                    2
Canada Goose                   12
Wood Duck                      f + 3 chicks
Mallard                        f + 8 chicks
Killdeer                       2
Spotted Sandpiper              1
Mourning Dove                  12
Chimney Swift                  2
Flycatcher sp.                 1 (oops - one more guy not singing)
Eastern Wood-Pewee             1
Tree Swallow                   5
Northern Rough-winged Swallow  2
Carolina Wren                  2
House Wren                     3
Gray Catbird                   40
Northern Mockingbird           15
Brown Thrasher                 6
Eastern Bluebird               2
Wood Thrush                    1
American Robin                 5s
Tufted Titmouse                2
American Crow                  1
European Starling              4
White-eyed Vireo               2
Red-eyed Vireo                 1
Yellow Warbler                 2
Common Yellowthroat            12
Scarlet Tanager                1
Eastern Towhee                 8
Chipping Sparrow               1
Field Sparrow                  9
Song Sparrow                   5
Northern Cardinal              5
Indigo Bunting                 4
Red-winged Blackbird           20
Common Grackle                 1
House Finch                    6
American Goldfinch             4