For the second consecutive year I did the May Count at Fairmount WMA and surrounding area in Somerset County. In the morning there was intermittent rain, heavy at times, that began at dawn. Later there was partial clearing and more wind. Consequently there were many fewer passerines than last year to be found. In fact, I probably saw no transient migrant passerines.

Canada Goose  37, many young
Mute Swan  2
Black Duck  8
Mallard  5
Black Duck X Mallard hybrid  2, male paired with a Black Duck & female paired with a Black Duck
Bobwhite  5
DC Cormorant  8
AMERICAN BITTERN  1, heard only, at Fishing Island, a possible breeder
Great Blue Heron  2
Great Egret  8
Snowy Egret  4
Tricolored Heron  2
Green Heron  4
Glossy Ibis  13
Black Vulture  6, mostly at the landfill
Turkey Vulture  20
Osprey  5
Red-tailed Hawk  2
Black-bellied Plover  1, at Rumbley
Semipalmated Plover  23
Killdeer  9
Spotted Sandpiper  2
Solitary Sandpiper  3
Greater Yellowlegs  7
Willet  9
Lesser Yellowlegs  2
Semipalmated Sandpiper  11
Least Sandpiper  20
Dunlin  19
STILT SANDPIPER  1, molting, in marsh on Frenchtown Road
Laughing Gull  940
Ring-billed Gull  10
Herring Gull  340
Great Black-back  3
Forster's Tern  16
Royal Tern  15
Feral Pigeon  6
Mourning Dove  21
Great Horned Owl  2, heard only, Maddux Island
Red-bellied Woodpecker  1, heard only
Hairy Woodpecker  1, heard only
Flicker  1
Pileated Woodpecker  1, heard only
Pewee  3, heard only
Crested Flycatcher  6, heard only
Kingbird  12
White-eyed Vireo  4
Red-eyed Vireo  12
Blue Jay  2, heard only
American Crow  11
Fish Crow  16, mostly at the landfill
Horned Lark  1, heard only, Revells Neck
Purple Martin  39
Tree Swallow  12
Rough-winged Swallow  4
Bank Swallow  1
Barn Swallow  49
Carolina Chickadee  10
Tufted Titmouse  9
Brown-headed Nuthatch  4
Carolina Wren  27
House Wren  4
Marsh Wren  17
Gnatcatcher  9
Bluebird  5
Wood Thrush  1, heard only
Robin  16
Catbird  7
Mockingbird  7
Starling  50
Cedar Waxwing  1
Parula  1, heard only
Yellow Warbler  7
Pine Warbler  12
Prairie Warbler  1, heard only
Ovenbird  12, heard only
Yellowthroat  41
Chat  1, heard only
Summer Tanager  7, no Scarlets
Towhee  4, heard only
Chipping Sparrow  22
Field Sparrow  3
Grasshopper Sparrow  2, Revells Neck
Seaside Sparrow  54, outscoring all other sparrows combined
Song Sparrow  12
Cardinal  20
Blue Grosbeak  9
Indigo Bunting  6
Red-winged Blackbird  90
Meadowlark  1, heard only, Revells Neck
Common Grackle  32
Boat-tailed Grackle  15
Cowbird  7
Orchard Oriole  12
House Finch  1, a male on a lawn in Frenchtown
Goldfinch  6, heard only
House Sparrow  16

--
Bob Ringler 
Eldersburg MD