Hi everyone,

I went birding during my lunch break here at Patuxent with colleagues David Ziolkowski and Keith Pardieck.  We first checked out Knowles Marsh #1 and had LOTS of circling Tree Swallows and 2 Am. Coots. But, the highlight was a fishing Caspian Tern!  It was really cool watching it plunge dive into the lake!  Then, we went down to the Pax River at Duvall Bridge.  Walked a little along the bridge and further into AA Co. and had: 
EAPH  4 of them
TUTI  singing
CARW  singing
CACH
RCKI  calling
NOPA  singing away and had great close looks at him. FOY for me!

Other natural history stuff we had were:
Beautiful flowering Spring Beauties, Virginia Bluebells and Yellow Corydalis.  Saw 2 Cricket Frogs, a FOY Zebra Swallowtail and a Tufted Titmouse eating a wooly bear caterpillar!

Peter Osenton
PWRC, Laurel, Md.