Spent a couple of hours birding on the Md  side of Great Falls this
afternoon.  The highlight was seeing, through a scope, both of the adult
eagles and both of the two new ( white and fuzzy but very active) chicks on
the nest, at the south end of ConnIsland, at the same time. Very nice
views.  Also a few first for 2009 birds: a male Baltimore oriole, two male
and one female Orchard orioles. A pair of clearly mated and preparing to
nest, Rough-wing swallows, hanging around lock-20.  Earlier in the day, I
saw my first for 2009 Eastern Kingbird sitting on a metal rail by the boat
launch across the river at Riverbend park in Virginia.
Must be Spring, huh?
-- 
Donald Sweig
Falls Church, Va.