Hello all.

I took a long walk around Lake Shore Athletic Complex in Pasadena this morning.  I found a fair assortment of seasonal birds including my first-of-season Yellow-bellied Sapsucker...always glad to see them return. 

Highlights (out of 44 species):

Cooper's Hawk: 2  one flyover, one hunting low
Black Vulture: 1
Red-bellied Woodpecker: 5
Downy Woodpecker: 4
Hairy Woodpecker: 1 
Northern Flicker: 2
YELLOW-BELLIED SAPSUCKER: 1
Chimney Swift: 2
Carolina Chickadee: 11
Tufted Titmouse: 7
White-breasted Nuthatch: 2
Eastern Bluebird: 4
Gray Catbird: 6
Brown Thrasher: 2
Purple Martin: 2
Eastern Phoebe: 1
White-eyed Vireo: 1
Red-eyed Vireo: 2
Palm Warbler: 3 yellow
Pine Warbler: 1
Black-throated Blue Warbler: 1 male
American Redstart: 2 immature/female
Eastern Towhee: 9
Field Sparrow: 2
Chipping Sparrow: 2
House Finch: 19
American Goldfinch: 5

Butterflies: 

Cabbage White: 4
Cloudless Sulphur: 2
Pearl Crescent: 1
Sachem: 1
Monarch: 3

Also checked out Riviera Beach (on the Patapsco in Pasadena) this evening and found good numbers of Ring-billed, Herring and Great Black-backed Gull as well as Double Crested Cormorant.  Also had a few Laughing Gulls and Caspian Terns. 

Matt Grey
Pasadena