Last night around sunset my wife and I walked the Serpentine Trail at
Soldier's Delight and were treated with a hooting Great Horned Owl,
evening twitter of Ovenbirds, Chats, Prairie Warblers, a couple late
feeding Black-throated Blue Warblers and Blackpoll Warblers, Gray-cheeked
Thrush, and a Swainson's Thrush. Fifteen minutes after sunset a chorus of
4-5 singing Whip-poor-wills started and we also flushed a silent bird from
the trail at the edge of the powerline below the Visitor Center. As we
passed the stone cabin in the woods, a Barred Owl called just over our
heads and offered fantastic looks in the lights from a flashlight.
Approaching the parking lot by the road, another Whip-poor-will sang from
a tree across the road and a Common Nighthawk called overhead. We made it
to the car just in time to make it out of there when the Police came
rolling in to chase us off. Another couple were not that lucky.....

Keep the birds coming!


Frode Jacobsen
Ten Hills, Baltimore, MD