Hi Folks,

I visited the Swan Creek Wetland and Cox Creek Dredge Facility in northern 
Anne Arundel Co. this morning (7/1), and it was as good as I've seen it in 
the past dozen visits.  The highlight was a robustly singing WARBLING VIREO, 
my first for this venue.  To my knowledge, this species is pretty much 
restricted to the Patapsco River area in AA Co., and can be found throughout 
the summer at Patapsco Pond #10; sightings elsewhere in the county are 
uncommon.

Other notables were an adult BLACK-CROWNED NIGHT HERON at the wetland and a 
CATTLE EGRET that flew into the southern dredge pond as I was leaving; both 
of these birds are irregular here.  Five LITTLE BLUE HERONs (four calico 
imms and one adult), three GLOSSY IBIS, five LEAST TERNs, and four MARSH 
WRENs were nice resident birds, seen during most visits in the summer.  A 
YELLOW-BILLED CUCKOO and a YELLOW-BREASTED CHAT were my first here this 
year.  Also of interest was a strapping young Red-bellied Woodpecker seen 
inside a nest cavity, certainly ready to emerge at any moment; the mother 
was making continuous sorties to keep the younster fed.

For anyone contemplating a visit to this place, please see the excellent 
writeups posted by Bill Hubick and Matt Grey a few weeks ago.  You could 
look in the MDOsprey archives, or I could forward the posts to you.

The complete ebird report appears below.

Stan Arnold
Ferndale (AA Co.)



> Location:     Swan Creek Dredged Material Facility
> Observation date:     7/1/09
> Number of species:     44
>
> Canada Goose     2
> Mute Swan     2
> Wood Duck     1
> Mallard     4
> Double-crested Cormorant     2
> Great Blue Heron     6
> Great Egret     2
> Snowy Egret     1
> Little Blue Heron     5
> Cattle Egret     1
> Black-crowned Night-Heron     1
> Glossy Ibis     3
> Osprey     3
> Killdeer     2
> Spotted Sandpiper     1
> Herring Gull (American)     4
> Great Black-backed Gull     13
> Least Tern     5
> Mourning Dove     2
> Yellow-billed Cuckoo     1
> Red-bellied Woodpecker     1 adult female and 1 ready to fledge
> Downy Woodpecker     1
> Northern Flicker (Yellow-shafted)     1
> Eastern Kingbird     1
> Warbling Vireo     1
> Red-eyed Vireo     2
> American Crow     1
> Fish Crow     1
> Purple Martin     1
> Tree Swallow     4
> Barn Swallow     5
> Carolina Chickadee     3
> Carolina Wren     2
> Marsh Wren     4
> Blue-gray Gnatcatcher     1
> American Robin     1
> Gray Catbird     1
> Common Yellowthroat     8
> Yellow-breasted Chat     1
> Northern Cardinal     7
> Blue Grosbeak     2
> Red-winged Blackbird     15
> Orchard Oriole     1
> American Goldfinch     1
>
> This report was generated automatically by eBird v2(http://ebird.org)
>