Highlights of brief walk (7:30-9:00 AM)
Red-shouldered Hawk 2 very vocal and possibly nesting again behind the
barn
Downy Woodpecker 4 (2 pairs chasing one another)
Pileated Woodpecker 2
WB Nuthatch 4 (2 pairs chasing one another)
Eastern Phoebe 4 including 2 near last year's nest in barn
Fish Crow 4
Tree Swallow 6 obnoxious flock harassing bluebirds (time to mount
the extra swallow boxes!)
American Robin 25
Eastern Bluebird 6 (3 pairs claim nestboxes) winter flocks has
disbanded
Cedar Waxwing 23
Eastern Towhee 2 drink-your-tea courtship song
Field Sparrow 1 singing again (silent since last August)
Song Sparrow 2 singing from prominent branches
Dark-eyed Junco 25 singing
Common Grackle 50
Brown-headed Cowbird 32
Pine Siskin 30 much zeeting
Heard at dusk yesterday: 1 Barred Owl, 3 American Woodcock & (3-4 Red Fox
yipping)
Felicia Lovelett
Sykesville, MD
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