Hi Everyone,

"Dude, there's a Lincoln's Sparrow singing in your front yard!" 
   
    -- Matt Hafner, first words on the phone this morning

You just can't get enough phone calls like that. There's been a lot of migrant activity around Fort Smallwood and Weinberg Park over the last couple days. Standing out among highlights have been COMMON NIGHTHAWKs, BLACK-BELLIED PLOVER, WILLOW FLYCATCHER, WILSON'S WARBLER, LINCOLN'S SPARROW, and BOBOLINKs. Here are some more details:

Home, Rockwood Beach (between Smallwood and Weinberg), morning of Wednesday, 5/14

Eastern Kingbird--1
Red-eyed Vireo--1
House Wren--1
Wood Thrush--1
Brown Thrasher--1
Yellow Warbler--1
Magnolia Warbler--1
Blackpoll Warbler--1
American Redstart--1
Common Yellowthroat--2
WILSON'S WARBLER--1
Orchard Oriole--1
Baltimore Oriole--2

Weinberg Park, afternoon of Wednesday, 5/14
with Matt Hafner

Canada Goose--1
Mallard--2
Double-crested Cormorant--16
Black-crowned Night-Heron--1 adult
Herring Gull--1
Least Tern--2
COMMON NIGHTHAWK--6; hunting over the trees, calling; first of the year for me here
Chimney Swift--4
Belted Kingfisher--1
Eastern Wood-Pewee--3
Great Crested Flycatcher--2
Eastern Kingbird--3
Red-eyed Vireo--6
Eastern Bluebird--1
Swainson's Thrush--1
Gray Catbird--2
Northern Parula--1
Chestnut-sided Warbler--1
Magnolia Warbler--4
Black-throated Blue Warbler--1
Yellow-rumped Warbler (Myrtle)--1
Black-throated Green Warbler--3
Blackpoll Warbler--3
American Redstart--4
Ovenbird--1
Common Yellowthroat--3
Scarlet Tanager--2
Eastern Towhee--1
Savannah Sparrow (Eastern)--2
White-throated Sparrow--2

Home, dusk on Wednesday, 5/14
with Matt Hafner

Common Nighthawk--1
Chuck-will's-widow--1; heard from Weinberg

Home, morning of Thursday, 5/15
with Matt Hafner

Canada Goose--5; three goslings with adults on a White Pond beach
Mallard--pair
Ruddy Duck--2 lingering on White Pond
Yellow-billed Cuckoo--1; calling extensively
Chimney Swift--1
Ruby-throated Hummingbird--2
Northern Flicker (Yellow-shafted)--1
Eastern Wood-Pewee--1-2
Great Crested Flycatcher--1
Eastern Kingbird--9; including 8 high-flying, northbound migrants
Red-eyed Vireo--5
Barn Swallow--1
Swainson's Thrush--1; singing
Gray Catbird--1
Brown Thrasher--1
Cedar Waxwing--18
Northern Parula--1
Yellow Warbler--2
Magnolia Warbler--4
Black-throated Blue Warbler--1
Black-throated Green Warbler--1
Blackpoll Warbler--2
American Redstart--2
Common Yellowthroat--3
warbler sp.--5
Scarlet Tanager--1
Song Sparrow--1
LINCOLN'S SPARROW--1; singing in our front yard; heard and spotted by Matt Hafner when he arrived
Bobolink--14; flybys; apparently all females today
Orchard Oriole--2; male displaying to the female
Baltimore Oriole--2

Fort Smallwood Park, just a quick visit, morning of Thursday, 5/15
with Matt Hafner

Osprey--2
Sharp-shinned Hawk--1; Matt only
BLACK-BELLIED PLOVER--1; found yesterday evening by Matt Grey; grass beside the new pier
Killdeer--8; including two tiny young
Spotted Sandpiper--3
Least Sandpiper--5; beach by new pier
Least Tern--2
Eastern Wood-Pewee--1
WILLOW FLYCATCHER--1; Calling from Phragmites area near new pier
Great Crested Flycatcher--1
Eastern Kingbird--4
Red-eyed Vireo--2
Purple Martin--1
Eastern Bluebird--1
Veery--1; singing in woods between the new pier and the gate
Gray Catbird--2
Cedar Waxwing--5
Yellow Warbler--1
Black-throated Blue Warbler--1; singing near the gate
Blackpoll Warbler--3
American Redstart--1
Common Yellowthroat--1
WILSON'S WARBLER--1; singing in the woods between the new pier and the gate; easily tracked down; same bird as from our yard?
Savannah Sparrow--3; in the grass near the pond
Song Sparrow--2
Indigo Bunting--3; flbys, calling
Bobolink--6
Orchard Oriole--3
Baltimore Oriole--2

It was SO hard to go to work today. Sue is probably watching a Mississippi Kite fly by Fort Smallwood right now! Oh, the pain... 

Good birding!

Bill

Bill Hubick
Pasadena, Maryland

http://www.billhubick.com