Upper Watts Branch Park for 5/14

Jim Moore drove up at just the right moment for killer looks at a Mourning Warbler at ten feet.  It was in the brushy tangle at the entrance to the path into the woods at Princeton and Fordham.  It may have moved upstream, but typically MOWAs move around quite a bit at this location and it could easily end up back at the tangle.

Last night, just before midnight, in 15 minutes I heard 16 Swainson's, 3 Gray-cheeked, a Wood Thrush and a Veery moving northeast on light southerly winds under the low overcast, ideal conditions to hear a thrush flight.

Yellow-billed Cuckoo
Red-eyed Vireo
Swainson's Thrush
Tennessee Warbler - FOY
Northern Parula
Magnolia Warbler 2
Black-throated Blue Warbler 2
Black-throated Green Warbler
Blackpoll Warbler 2
American Redstart 3
Ovenbird
MOURNING WARBLER
Common Yellowthroat
Scarlet Tanager

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