Lately I've been taking occasional vacation days, enjoying the month  of May 
while working on some of my more anemic county lists. On Thursday I  did 
Harford from dawn to about 1:30, when the storms began to roll in.  The dawn chorus 
didn't sound all that promising, and because I wasn't in Big Day  mode I 
didn't spend time chasing down species I didn't need, like woodpeckers.  But when 
I totalled things up I was surprised to have 101 species, including 19  
warblers. Almost all of this was between 2 locations, Susquehanna SP and Swan  
Harbor Farms. With more time and energy, and more knowledge of the county I  might 
have gone for better numbers. It was my first visit to Swan Harbor but  won't 
be the last. Here are some highlights; many are birds that others have  
reported from these locales.
 
Susquehanna SP, 0600-1030:
Eastern Wood-Pewee - 3
Acadian Flycatcher - 7
Eastern Phoebe - 1
Great Crested Flycatcher - 4
White-eyed Vireo - 1
Yellow-throated Vireo - 2
Blue-headed Vireo - 1
Warbling Vireo - 2
Red-eyed Vireo - 9
Veery - 1
Wood Thrush - 11
Northern Parula - 8
Yellow Warbler - 1
Magnolia Warbler - 1
Black-throated Blue Warbler - 3
Yellow-rumped Warbler - 8
Blackburnian Warbler - 1
Yellow-throated Warbler - 2 (mouth of Deer Creek - thanks Rick!)
Blackpoll Warbler - 2
Cerulean Warbler - 8
Black-and-white Warbler - 2
American Redstart - 13
Prothonotary Warbler - 2
Worm-eating Warbler - 4
Ovenbird - 15
Louisiana Waterthrush - 3
Kentucky Warbler - 1
Common Yellowthroat - 10
Yellow-breasted Chat - 3 (forest buffer area behind picnic area)
Scarlet Tanager - 3
Rose-breasted Grosbeak - 1
Indigo Bunting- 8
Orchard Oriole - 3
Baltimore Oriole - 4
 
Swan Harbor Farms, 1100-1330:
Bufflehead - 1 male, strangest bird of the day, on the impoundment
Little Blue Heron - 2
Glossy Ibis - 1, flew into the impoundment
Virginia Rail - 1, grunting
Sora - 3 separate whinny calls
American Coot - 1
Semipalmated Plover - 5
Killdeer - 2
Greater Yellowlegs - 6
Lesser Yellowlegs - 4
Solitary Sandpiper - 5
Semipalmated Sandpiper - 4
Least Sandpiper - 11
Wilson's Snipe - 1
Horned Lark - 2
Purple Martin - 1 high flyover
Tree Swallow - 12
N. Rough-winged Swallow - 3
Bank Swallow - 3
Barn Swallow - 15
Prairie Warbler - 1
Savannah Sparrow - 3
Rose-breasted Grosbeak - 1
Blue Grosbeak - 1
 
Joel Martin
Catonsville, MD
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