In the morning in the Westminster area where migrant ducks are dwindling in numbers: 

   Study Road: 

Canada Goose  70 

Baldpate  5 

Mallard  5 



   Magna Way: 

Canada Goose  3 

Tree Swallow  50 

Rough-winged Swallow  2 



Cranberry Reservoir: 

Canada Goose  68 

Mallard  6 

Red-breasted Merganser  1 female 

Common Loon  1 

DC Cormorant  35 

Bald Eagle  1 adult, fishing unsuccessfully 

Greater Yellowlegs  1, heard only, my first of the year locally 

Phoebe  1 

Tree Swallow  15 

Rough-winged Swallow  2 

Brown Thrasher  1 

Pine Siskin  1 



   In the afternoon at McKeldin Area of Patapsco Valley SP where I ran into Bud and Marilyn Taylor and also two flocks of migrant passerines: 

BLUE-HEADED VIREO  1, my first of the year 

Ruby-crowned Kinglet  1 

Myrtle Warbler  3 

Pine Warbler  4, migrants here on the flood plain 

Yellow Palm Warbler  10 

Louisiana Waterthrush  3 

Bob Ringler 
Eldersburg MD