I started the morning at Cranberry Reservoir with:
Canada Goose  3
Mallard  1
Common Merganser  4
Red-breasted Merganser  5
Ruddy Duck  4
Common Loon  2, both in breeding plumage & one wailing
Pied-billed Grebe  2
Horned Grebe  1
DC Cormorant  4
Great Blue Heron  1
Coot  7
Phoebe  1
Tree Swallow  2
Rough-winged Swallow  2
Barn Swallow  3

At Hashawha:
Rough-winged Swallow  2
HOUSE WREN  1, investigating nest box at the nature center, new early record
for the county
Ruby-crowned Kinglet  1, my first of the spring
Brown Thrasher  1 singing, my first of the year in Carroll
Yellow Palm Warbler  2, one singing
Chipping Sparrow  -  several singing
Swamp Sparrow  3, one singing on territory
White-throated Sparrow  6
Junco  3

At Study Road:
Canada Goose  60
Black Duck  2
Mallard  1
BLUE-WINGED TEAL  2, my first of the year in Carroll
Ring-necked Duck  2

At Union Mills Wetland where the water is very high, surprisingly no ducks
or shorebirds:
Canada Goose  2
Coot  1

-- 
Bob Ringler
Eldersburg MD

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