I spent this morning birding Terrapin Park on Kent Island.  
Although there was no sign of a Connecticut Warbler, there were 
plenty of other good birds.  I walked the main loop trail in a 
counterclockwise direction but did not see much until I was about 
three-quarters of the way around.  At the point where the trail 
passes between the swamp and the wastewater treatment plant, 
I came across an actively-foraging mixed flock of warblers (see 
my list below).  The best bird in this group was a very cooperative 
and stunningly beautiful male BLACK-THROATED BLUE WARBLER.  
A short time later, approaching the parking lot, I got a brief look at a 
PHILADELPHIA VIREO in a tangle of vines - the icing on the cake!

Highlights included the following:

Bald Eagle - 1 adult
Eastern Wood-Pewee
Eastern Phoebe - several
Philadelphia Vireo
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
Brown Thrasher
Chestnut-sided Warbler
Magnolia Warbler
Black-throated Blue Warbler - 1 male (possibly 2)
Black and White Warbler - 2
American Redstart - 1 first-year male
Common Yellowthroat - several

Plus the usual Blue Jays, catbirds, cardinals, and wrens.

Good birding!

Elaine Hendricks
Greenbelt, MD  (PG County)



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