Hi Folks,

It's the time of year when anything can happen, and anything did happen once 
again:  a N. GOSHAWK  flew over our Ferndale yard around 1:30 p.m. yesterday 
(Friday 4/3).  It was an immature, and was heading to the northwest.  This 
is our second over the yard, the first one being in Nov 2007, when an imm 
bird flew over heading west, and then was found by Ed Boyd at BWI airport 
shortly thereafter.

School let out early yesterday, so I headed over to Oxbow Lake around noon, 
where I found birds previously reported.  Notable for me were N. SHOVELER 
(3), BONAPARTE'S GULL (1), CASPIAN TERN (3) and BARN SWALLOW (1); there were 
also 21 Snipe, all concentrated along the shoreline of the north peninsula 
due to the high water.  I then came home for a short spell between rain 
showers when I lucked into the goshawk, and then headed over to the Swan 
Creek Wetland and Cox Creek Dredged Material Facility at the end of Kembo 
Rd. in northeastern AA Co. (within sight of the Key Bridge).  Most notable 
finds were two adult LITTLE BLUE HERONs at the wetland, and there were also 
three CASPIAN TERNs among scores of Herring Gulls at one of the big sludge 
impoundments.

Enjoy the wind today.

Stan Arnold
Ferndale (AA Co.)