Piney Run Park this afternoon with several new arrivals and the first large flock of swallows: 

Canada Goose  46 

Gadwall  2, a pair 

Mallard  16 

Blue-winged Teal  3 males, my first of the year 

Green-winged Teal  3 

Bufflehead  4 

Hooded Merganser  2, a pair 

Common Merganser  1 female 

Red-breasted Merganser  3 

Common Loon  4 

Pied-billed Grebe  1 

DC Cormorant  5 

Great Blue Heron  1 

GREEN HERON  1, beats by one day my personal earliest (from 1991) 

Osprey  1 

Bald Eagle  1 adult with a fish 

Coot  6 

Ring-billed Gull  1 

Tree Swallow  100 

Rough-winged Swallow  60 

Barn Swallow  15, my first of the year 

Gnatcatcher  1 

Yellow Palm Warbler  1, my first of the year 

Bob Ringler 
Eldersburg MD