Hi Everyone, 

While not wanting to spend 50 dollars to drive somewhere to look for birds this 
weekend  i did some local birding and probably spent 20  . My  birding started 
yesterday at Soldiers Delight NEA off Liberty Road in  search for some good  
migrants . Then to Liberty Dam trail , and ending with  CERA pond on the UMBC 
campus in Arbutus  with car birding while having late lunch.Did see 4 birders  
birding by the pond .  Todays birding was the Gwynn Falls bike trail  by the 
Carroll Park Golf Course which is just about a mile from home encouraged by 
recent reports of thrushes here at which i heard about 3 notes of a fluty song 
over top of the I95 traffic thats about a stone throw away but did not manage 
to find one. . Regardless it was one of my better birding days. Being 
surrounded by birds the entire 3 hours i was here. Birds listed below leaving 
out all the usuals . 

Soldiers Delight NEA

Redtailed hawk 1
Turkey vulture  10
Black vulture   5
Eastern towhee  6
Veery            1
Great crested flycatcher 2
Acadian flycatcher   1
Eastern Phoebe    1
Eastern Pewee 1
Blue gray gnatcatcher  2
White eyed vireo   5
Red eyed vireo   5
Summer tanager    1
Scarlet tanager    1
Field sparrow     4
Chipping sparrow 5
Pine warbler    2
Eastern Bluebird 2
American goldfinch  4
Brown headed cowbird 1


Liberty Dam trail  

Great crested flycatcher   1
Eastern wood pewee    1
Redeyed vireo     3
Eastern towhee    2
Indigo bunting    3   one juvenile 
Ovenbird    1
Northern Parula   1
American goldfinch   2
Chipping sparrow 2


CERA Pond    at UMBC

Redshouldered hawk     1  stalking the area 
Barn swallow       5
Tree swallow       5
Cedar waxwing  1
Yellow warbler     1
Greatcrested flycatcher   1
White eyed vireo    1
Northern flicker     1 
Carolina wren       1


Gwynn falls trail   Carroll Park 
Mallard       1 female 11 chicks yes eleven 
American Kestrel   1  sitting on a metal pole at the trash pond 
Great blue heron    1  scruffly looking at the trash pond 
Fish crow   2
Chimney swift    10    hanging very low at the trash pond . 
Tree swallow    5
Eastern Phoebe    1 trash pond 
Eastern wood pewee    2 trash pond 
Warbling vireo    2   beginning of trail by the stream 
YELLOW BELLIED FLYCATCHER   1   in second tree from the parking lot on right 
side of trail . 
American redstart  1
Blackburnian warbler 1
Cedar waxwing    3
Eastern kingbird    4
Orchard oriole    2
Baltimore oriole   2    could have been 10 but only could see 2 at one time . 
Eastern bluebird   1
Chipping sparrow 1
Redwinged blackbird  2
Song sparrow 5
Brown headed cowbird  3


Saundra Byrd 
 
baltimore