This Sunday I discovered how birdy Wheaton Regional Park can be. The highlight was a beautiful red shouldered hawk in the middle of Brookside gardens oblivious to passers-by. It caught a frog while I was watching.
Other sightings:
Osprey
Sharp-shinned hawk
Red tailed hawk
Un-ID'd buteo migrating at high altitude
Lots of flickers, downies, red-bellied wp, pileated wp
Carolina and house wren
Ruby crowned and golden crowned kinglets
Least Flycatcher
Phoebes
Black throated blue Warbler
Magnolia warbler
Immature black poll warbler
Palm warblers
Common yellowthroat
Lots of chipping sparrows
White throated sparrow
Goldfinch, robins, catbird, mockingbirds, bluebird, mourning doves, mallards, blue jays and crows
Vickie Hoffmann
Bethesda, Md
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