Hi all --

Never even got to Brookside Gardens as Wheaton Regional Park was so active,
although not at first - it took a while for things to start jumping.
Yesterday's large number of Phoebes seems to have moved through, back to
normal. Still a nice sampling of warblers, but the best bird would have to
be the skulking MARSH WREN first heard (and glimpsed) in the reeds at the
very head of Pine Lake. It gave us a merry chase up and down the lakeshore
(in the sunny reeds) without any really great looks but enough to confirm
ID. Good bird for lower Montgomery Co.

Birds of interest:

Red-shouldered Hawk - 3
Wood Duck - 1 female
SOLITARY SANDPIPER - 1
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker - 2
Eastern Phoebe - 6
BROWN CREEPER - 1
RED-BREASTED NUTHATCH - 1
Golden-crowned Kinglet - 10 (at least)
Ruby-crowned Kinglet - 12 (at least)
Eastern Bluebird - 4
Swainson's Thrush - 1
Blue Jay -- 100+ overhead, flying south in small flocks all morning
Gray Catbird - 8
House Wren - 3
MARSH WREN - 1
Scarlet Tanager - 1
Blue-headed Vireo - 5
(NO Red-eyes...)
Black-and-White Warbler - 3
Black-throated Green Warbler - 4
Black-throated Blue Warbler - 12 (at least...)
Chestnut-sided Warbler - 2
Magnolia Warbler - 1
TENNESSEE WARBLER - 5 (four of them together in a flock consisting of one
adult bird and three immatures)
Common Yellowthroat - 8
Indigo Bunting - 3
LINCOLN'S SPARROW - 1
White-throated Sparrow - 8
Song Sparrow - 3 (low)
Chipping Sparrow - 20+
Eastern Towhee - 8

Gail Mackiernan and Barry Cooper
Colesville, MD