Birded this morning west of Columbia in Howard County. Many areas seemed 
quiet but I saw several large flocks of robins with a few waxwing fellow 
travelers. A female American Kestrel was perched on top of a small tree along 
Old Frederick Road between routes 32 and 97. The best area was the brushy 
west end of Western Regional Park where there were two groups of feeding 
birds. One was in the area below the farthest ballfields where the Tree and 
Fox Sparrows were along with many Song Sparrows, towhees, Field Sparrows 
and a single Swamp Sparrow.  Another group was around the stormwater pond 
next to the woods where I saw more Field Sparrows, White-throated 
Sparrows, a towhee, a Yellow-rumped Warbler and heard a Brown Creeper.

Jim Wilkinson
Coumbia, MD