When I went outside at 10:45 PM on Friday night I heard, in 5 minutes, 9 
thrushes of three species and lots of warbler pits and sips.   I knew then 
that the 20 warbler species we had recorded on Thursday and Friday mornings 
would probably not be there on Saturday morning.   They weren't.   The full 
list that follows was not as sparse as I feared, though.

Great Blue heron Canada Goose 1
Red-shouldered hawk 1
Mourning Dove 4
Ruby-throated Hummingbird 1
Red-bellied Woodpecker 6
Downy Woodpecker 1
Hairy Woodpecker 2
Northern Flicker 2
Eastern Wood-Pewee 1
Acadian Flycatcher 1
Eastern Phoebe 1
Great Crested Flycatcher 2
Eastern Kingbird 1
Red-eyed Vireo 7
Blue Jay 25
American Crow 1
Fish Crow 2
Carolina Chickadee 3
Tufted Titmouse 4
White-breasted Nuthatch 1
Carolina Wren 5
House Wren 8
Ruby-crowned Kinglet 1
Swainson's Thrush 3
Wood Thrush 5
American Robin 15
Gray Catbird 20
Cedar Waxwing 25
Northern Parula 3
Black-throated Blue Warbler 1
Yellow-rumped Warbler 10
Blackburnian Warbler 2
Blackpoll Warbler 2
Black-and-White Warbler 1
American Redstatrt 1
Northern Waterthrush 1
Common Yellowthroat 1
Scarlet Tanager 6
Eastern Towhee 2
Chipping Sparrow 5
Song Sparrow 1
White-throated Sparrow 8
Northern Cardinal 12
Rose-breasted Grosbeak 2
Indigo Bunting 2
Common Grackle 2
Brown-headed Cowbird 6
Baltimore Oriole 6
House Finch 4
American Goldfinch 25
House Sparrow 6

Total 52 species including 9 warblers

Paul O'Brien
Rockville, Mont. Co., MD


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