Location:     Upper Watts Branch Park
Observation date:     5/5/09
Number of species:     48

Finally got into some migrants today in Montgomery County. 

Great Blue Heron     1
Red-shouldered Hawk     1
Mourning Dove     1
Red-bellied Woodpecker     1
Downy Woodpecker     1
Hairy Woodpecker     1
Northern Flicker     1
Pileated Woodpecker     1
Eastern Phoebe     1
Great Crested Flycatcher     2
White-eyed Vireo     1
Red-eyed Vireo     3
crow sp.     2
Carolina Chickadee     2
Tufted Titmouse     5
White-breasted Nuthatch     1
Carolina Wren     3
House Wren     4
Veery     4
Swainson's Thrush     1
Wood Thrush     4
American Robin     3
Gray Catbird     7
Northern Mockingbird     2
Nashville Warbler     1 heard only
Northern Parula     4 (1 seen, 3 heard)
Yellow Warbler     1 (heard only)
Chestnut-sided Warbler 1 heard only
Magnolia Warbler     1
Black-throated Blue Warbler     4 (1 seen, 3 heard)
Yellow-rumped Warbler     7
Black-throated Green Warbler     1
Blackburnian Warbler     3 heard only
Black-and-white Warbler     2 (1 seen 1 heard)
American Redstart     1 heard only
Worm-eating Warbler     1
Ovenbird     6 (2 seen, rest heard)
Louisiana Waterthrush     1
Hooded Warbler     2
Scarlet Tanager     6
Eastern Towhee     1
Song Sparrow     1
White-throated Sparrow     9
Northern Cardinal     2
Rose-breasted Grosbeak     2
Brown-headed Cowbird     2
Baltimore Oriole     2
American Goldfinch     5

Took advantage of rain yesterday to look for shorebirds in the county. Had good numbers of the expected spring shorebirds plus American Pipits.

Location:     Summit Hall Turf Farm
Killdeer     1
Solitary Sandpiper     2
Greater Yellowlegs     10
Lesser Yellowlegs     5
Least Sandpiper     5
Dunlin     3
American Pipit     5

Location:   Whites Ferry Area Fields (there's a nice shorebird puddle this year just north of White's ferry off Rt 107 on left side of [and close to] the road. Field is still fairly bare of vegetation and landowner has dumped some gravel on side of road making it easy to pull off and park)
Semipalmated Plover     1
Killdeer     1
Solitary Sandpiper     5
Greater Yellowlegs     9
Lesser Yellowlegs     5
American Pipit     3

Location:     Patton Turf Farm (last turf area on right, heading south on River Rd)
Killdeer     1
Solitary Sandpiper     2
Greater Yellowlegs     4
Lesser Yellowlegs     3
Horned Lark     1
American Pipit  31

Location:     Germantown Soccerplex (model boat pond)
Killdeer 1
Spotted Sandpiper     3
Solitary Sandpiper     3
Greater Yellowlegs     2
Lesser Yellowlegs     2

Location:     Green Hills Farm Wetlands (off Huntmaster Rd)
Solitary Sandpiper     14
Greater Yellowlegs     3
Least Sandpiper     7

Good birding,

Andy Martin
Gaithersburg