Joy: thanks so much for your post. I headed over to the Potomac shores of 
PG and Charles county on a rare free Sunday afternoon today, hoping to a) Do 
something to buck up my pathetic Charles County list and b) find the Red-
Headed Woodpecker. Succeeded on both counts!

RHWO pictures will be on www.birdcouple.com as soon as I get a sec...

Here's the day's report. Conditions very windy all day long:

Piscataway National Park (PG County)--

White-Throated Sparrow
Horned Grebe
Bufflehead (in Potomac)
Gadwall (in Potomac)
Mallard  
Savannah Sparrow (6-8)
Eastern Phoebe
Osprey (2)

Piscataway National Park/Marshall Hall (Charles County)--

Eastern Bluebird
Dark-Eyed Junco
Osprey

Mattawoman Creek/Route 227--

American Black Duck (2)
Mallard (30?)
Red-Tailed Hawk
Great Blue Heron

Smallwood State Park--

American Coot (500?!)
American Wigeon (2)
Horned Grebe (4+)
Red-Breasted Merganser (3)
Belted Kingfisher
*Red-Headed Woodpecker
Yellow-Rumped Warbler
Ring-Necked Duck (4)
Scaup, sp.
Ring-Billed Gull
Osprey
* Pine Warbler

Plus the usual.....

Good Birding!
Warren & Lisa Strobel
Annapolis, MD

www.birdcouple.com



On Sat, 15 Mar 2008 20:11:04 -0400, Joy Peters <> 
wrote:

>Hi, All
>
>We just got back from a day of birding in lower PG County and Charles 
County 
>and saw some interesting birds. Here are the highlights:
>
>Piscataway Park, PG County - March 15
>eastern phoebe
>American woodcock
>gadwalls
>ruddy ducks
>American wigeons
>lesser scaups
>
>Smallwood State Park, Charles County - March 15
>horned grebes
>gadwalls
>red-headed woodpeckers (along the General's trail)
>common loon
>4 redheads
>
>Doncaster Forest, Charles County - March 15
>about 6 fox sparrows
>eastern phoebe
>
>Thomas Stone Historical Site, Charles County - March 15
>hermit thrush
>black-throated green warbler (near the small cemetery)
>
>Joy Peters
>Germantown, MD
>