Leakin Park: Baltimore City

April 26: We walked in Leakin Park today from 8:30 - 11:00 from the parking 
lot on Windsor Mill Rd. down Wetheredsville Rd., around to Winans Meadows; 
up to the Carrie Murray Center then along the wetland trail back to 
Wetheredsville.

Last week the woods were thick with Ruby-crowned Kinglets. This week we 
heard only one. Strings of Blue-jays flew overhead in loose flocks. We found 
Blue-gray Gnatcatchers nestbuilding on Wetheredsville Road. We found no 
Indigo Buntings, but had one in our yard yesterday, along with our first 
Catbird and first Hummingbird of the year.

Birds seen today (asterisks by the ones we have not see in the park 
previously this spring):

Turkey Vulture
Canada Goose
Wood Duck flyover (we had a pair at Winans meadows last Sunday)
Mallard
Red-tailed Hawk
Morning Dove
Yellow-billed Cuckoo *
Ruby-throated Hummingbird
Red-bellied Woodpecker
Downy Woodpecker
Northern Flicker
Eastern Phoebe
White-eyed Vireo *
Blue-headed Vireo (our first were two last Sunday)
Red-eyed Vireo *
American Crow
Northern Rough-winged Swallows* (carrying nesting material into drainage 
holes by bridge near Winans
       Meadows Parking Lot.)
Carolina Chickadee
Tufted Titmouse
White-breasted Nuthatch
Carolina Wren
House Wren *
Ruby Crowned Kinglet
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher (making tidy cup nest in fork of tree along 
Wetheredsville Road)
Hermit Thrush
Wood Thrush
American Robin
Gray Catbird
Blue-winged Warbler *
Northern Parula
Black-throated Green Warbler *
Ovenbird *
Louisiana Waterthrush
Eastern Towhee
Chipping Sparrow
Field Sparrow
White-throated Sparrows
Northern Cardinal
Common Grackle
Brown-headed Cowbird
American Goldfinch

Elise and Paul Kreiss
Baltimore City