Yesterday I went to the Liberty Watershed off Bollinger Mill Road. Though
I saw only six species of warblers five of them were ones I had not found
the day before at Piney Run. Also of note was an unidentified thrush. I
watched this bird raise and lower its tail like a Hermit Thrush which would
be extraordinarily early though not unprecedented, but the breast spotting
was weaker and looked more like a Swainson's, possibly of the western
russet-backed subspecies, but I don't know if that occurs here. I only saw
the bird obliquely from the front. In the forest today were:
Yellow-billed Cuckoo  1
Crested Flycatcher  1
White-eyed Vireo  1
Yellow-throated Vireo  1, heard only, singing
Red-eyed Vireo  2
Catbird  1
Pine Warbler  1 immature
Redstart  2
Ovenbird  1
Yellowthroat  1
Hooded Warbler  2, singing
Canada Warbler  1
Scarlet Tanager  1, heard only, calling, not singing

   On the mudflats in the cove there were:
Great Blue Heron  2
Great Egret  1
Green Heron  3
Spotted Sandpiper  4
Solitary Sandpiper  2
Least Sandpiper  2

-- 
Bob Ringler
Eldersburg MD