Hi all,

Today I took a quick trip to Finzel Swamp at lunch with Kevin Oxenrider where we also ran into another birder whose name I did not get, then in the afternoon Jo Anna Leachman and I headed down to North Branch to see what was around.  At Finzel swamp, the most interesting sighting was a juvenile NORTHERN GOSHAWK that came out of the woods from the south, soared around a bit above the swamp (and above us), then flew back into the woods to the north, all the while being pursued by an American Crow.  At North Branch there was a near full breeding plumaged BLACK-BELLIED PLOVER among a few other shorebirds.

A more or less complete list follows:

Finzel Swamp 
Broad-winged Hawk  1
NORTHERN GOSHAWK  1
Northern Waterthrush  3
Swamp Sparrow  many
Indigo Bunting  1
Common Yellowthroat  3
Field Sparrow  many
Song Sparrow  many
Ovenbird  1

North Branch
Bonaparte's Gull  1 
BLACK- BELLIED PLOVER  1
Lesser Yellowlegs  5
Greater Yellowlegs  1
Least Sandpiper  3
Dunlin  1 in breeding plumage
Spotted Sandpiper  3
Solitary Sandpiper  6
Killdeer 7, 4 chicks
Lesser Scaup  1
Mallard  6
Wood Duck  1 female, 12 ducklings
Canada Goose  30
Northern Rough-winged  Swallow  1
Tree Swallow  4
Northern Waterthrush  1
Warbling Vireo  2
Yellow-throated Vireo  1
Yellow Warbler  4
Indigo Bunting  8
White-crowned Sparrow  15
Song Sparrow 4
Baltimore Oriole  5
Orchard Oriole  3

Good Birding!
Mikey Lutmerding
Frostburg, MD


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