On a leisurely 3-mile walk from downtown Bethesda to my home in West 
Bethesda this morning, after leaving a vehicle for service at 
Crawford Tire on Arlington Rd., I was aware of bird activity on every 
street, especially in the well wooded, beautiful Bethesda suburb of Edgemoor.

In addition to several Scarlet Tanagers, a Baltimore Oriole, and a 
Rose-breasted Grosbeak, I had 10 species of warblers, among them my 
first-of-year Tennessee Warbler, singing like mad along Glenbrook 
Rd.  One large shade tree at the intersection of Hampden Lane and 
Moorland Lane contained 7 species of warblers!  American Redstarts 
(both sexes) and Magnolia Warblers were particularly common, and 
Blackpoll Warblers are beginning to increase in numbers.

Earlier this morning I had patrolled my "local patch" around Little 
Falls Parkway in Bethesda, and found a continuing Northern 
Waterthrush where the stream runs under Hillandale Rd.  American 
Redstarts and Magnolia Warblers were singing all over here, too.  I 
also saw an American Pipit being flushed by one of the many dogs that 
run around, unleashed and uncontrolled, in Norwood Park.  The pipit 
was my first in the patch.

Good Spring Birding!

Mike Bowen
Bethesda, MD

D.H. Michael Bowen
8609 Ewing Drive
Bethesda, MD  20817
Telephone: (301) 530-5764
e-mail:  dhmbowenATyahooDOTcom

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