Hi all,

 During the morning I took my scope and sat by Lake Needwood (near Needwood Rd bridge)
and did some birding before the heat become unbearable. Pretty birdy, with the usual summer residents:

9:30-11:50am 

Yellow billed Cuckoo 1
Great Egret 2
Green Heron 2 (1immature)
Belted Kingfisher 1
Mallard 10-12   (teenage ducks and molting adults)
Canada Geese 35
Wood Duck 2 (juvies)
Killdeer 7
Turkey Vulture 3
Black Vulture 2
Osprey 1
Fish Crow 1
Common Crow 10
Starling 5
Eastern Phoebe 2
American Robin 3
Carolina Wren 1
American Goldfinch 4
Rufous sided Towhee 1
Red eyed Vireo 1
Eastern Kingbird 4
Song Sparrow 2
Cedar Waxwing 5
Chipping Sparrow 2

D.Ford/Bethesda, Md