This afternoon I had a couple of hours to get out so I headed to a few 
locations around Carroll County. The first location that I visited was the 
New Windsor Wetlands behind The New Windsor Middle School. I was hoping to 
kick up a bittern but had no luck. It was here that I found my GOLDEN-WINGED 
WARBLER and BOBOLINK. The Bobolink flew less than 20 feet right over my head 
in full song and landed in a tree near the basketball court by the parking 
lot. The Golden-winged Warbler was in full song in the tree line between the 
wetland and the sewage ponds just to the east.

From there I made a few other unproductive stops (unproductive as in not 
adding new species for the day) before stopping along the wetlands next to 
Brown Road north of Westminster. There were still lots of White-throated 
Sparrows in song on the north side of the road here. In the marshy area on 
the south side of the road I had one SORA call spontaneously in response to 
my hand clapping. I had hoped for possibly a Virginia Rail with no luck. The 
Sora was a nice consolation prize. There wasn't much else to report in the 
wetlands and the surrounding area.

My list for New Windsor is below:

Location:     New Windsor Wetland
Observation date:     4/27/08
Number of species:     32

Canada Goose     4
Great Blue Heron     1
Greater Yellowlegs     1
Mourning Dove     3
Chimney Swift     36
Red-bellied Woodpecker     1
Northern Flicker (Yellow-shafted)     1
Warbling Vireo     1
Blue Jay     2
Tree Swallow     18
Northern Rough-winged Swallow     4
Barn Swallow     6
Carolina Chickadee     2
Eastern Bluebird     2
American Robin     8
Gray Catbird     2
Northern Mockingbird     1
Brown Thrasher     2
European Starling     7
Golden-winged Warbler     1
Northern Parula     2
Yellow Warbler     2
Common Yellowthroat     2
Chipping Sparrow     2
Song Sparrow     8
Northern Cardinal     3
Bobolink     1
Red-winged Blackbird     8
Common Grackle     2
Orchard Oriole     2
House Finch     2
House Sparrow     3

Ed Boyd
Westminster, MD