There was a male Virginia Rail doing its kiddick call this morning at 
Hughes Hollow which was heard by several birders.  As you walk out on 
the main dike it was to the right just before the second (taller) line 
of trees.  Also FOY Acadian Flycatcher and at Riley's Lock, 
Yellow-throated Warbler, and in the development cul-de-sac off W. River 
Rd., the Grasshopper Sparrows have returned.

Not many new warbler migrants though, but a lot of novice birders out 
looking for them. I need to remember to be skeptical of some of their 
reports. I wasted time chasing a reported Alder Flycatcher at Hughes 
Hollow (turned out to be an Acadian Flycatcher--at least thre was an 
Acadian calling at the same location, and no one else I asked was aware 
of an Alder) and got excited by the report of a Cerulean Warbler at 
Sycamore Landing until the birder added that these bred every year at 
that location (think he must've meant Prothonotary Warbler).

Good birding!
Jim Moore
Rockville, Maryland
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