Saw a Common Raven early this morning (Nov 24) flying over Brokenland 
Parkway just east of Route 29. Other bird highlights this weekend were an 
adult male Purple Finch at a feeder near Lake Elkhorn, Tree Sparrows in 
private property near Alpha Ridge Park, mixed flocks of robins and Cedar 
Waxwings feasting on the crab apples in my neighborhood, and, just over the 
line in Baltimore County, 3 Red-breasted Nuthatches foraging in the 
evergreens at the entrance to the Woodstock Job Corps Center on Old Court 
Road.

Jim Wilkinson
Columbia, MD