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not too active at Wheaton & Sligo today, alas...

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Sat, 7 May 2011 11:09:38 -0400

Hi-

Afetr a great day yesterday, many birders today were left to puzzle out why 
this morning was so slow. Yesterday evening's thunderstorms? The cool 
breeze? Or just a bunch of uncooperative and mainly silent birds -- 
("Come on out, we know you're in there...!"). Anyway, we struggled this 
morning to build any sort of interesting list of migrants -- visiting 
Brookside Gardens, Wheaton Regional Park and later, upper Sligo Park. 
The latter was actually the birdiest, but not by much!

Birds of interest (not a complete list): Sligo-only birds with *

Double-crested Cormorant - 2
Green Heron - 2
Red-shouldered Hawk - 1
Tree Swallow - 4
Barn Swallow - 12
Great Crested Flycatcher - 4
Acadian Flycatcher - 2
Eastern Kingbird - 1*
Warbling Vireo - 1
Red-eyed Vireo - 12+ (most are probably local breeders now)
House Wren - 2
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher - 8
Wood Thrush - 6 (again, robably mostly local breeders)
Catharus thrush sp. - 1
Cedar Waxwing - 15
Northern Parula - 2
Yelow-rumped (Myrtle) Warbler - 6
Black-throated Blue Warbler - 1*
Black-throated Green Warbler - 1*
Blackpoll Warbler - 2
Common Yellowthroat - 2
Ovenbird - 1 (heard)
American Redstart - 5
Scarlet Tanager - 2 (heard only)
Chipping Sparrow - 8
White-throated Sparrow - 1
Indigo Bunting - 1
Orchard Oriole - 1
Baltimore Oriole - 8 (either a major decline or most were being silent)

Gail Mackiernan and Barry Cooper
Colesville, MD


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