Hi all,

  First, I'd like to thank Clive H.  for posting on the Dickcissel, and other species in the 'rural' part of Montgomery County which is disappearing quickly. Went out along Westerly Rd, and Edwards Ferry Rds, W.Offutt.  Cruising home I stopped by Hughes Hollow Impoundments to see what was about. Many Green-backed Herons flying about, and fledged young. No other waterfowl I could see, except for one domestic Mallard type and one Wood Duck. A Prothonotary Warbler put on quite a show at the parking lot, flying and singing loudly. Saw a Yellow-billed Cuckoo taking food to nest.

One Great Blue Heron in the back of large impoundment near Hunting Quarter Road seemed very ill. One of it's eyes was injured, and it moved very sluggish. An angry Red winged Blackbird perched on it's back and ripped feathers out!  A healthy heron would not have tolerated this. 

Back roads MontCo: (drivng)

Eastern Meadowlark 1
Dickcissel  1 (on top of cedar in center of field )
Vesper Sparrow
Blue Grosbeak-perched on wire
Grasshopper Sparrows (saw 1, heard several)
Indigo Buntings
Prairie Warbler
Eastern Bluebird
Northern Mockingbird


Hughes Hollow: 

Green-backed Heron  8
Great Blue Heron   1
Great Egret   1
Red winged Blackbirds
Tree Swallows
Barn Swallow  1
Indigo Buntings
Prairie Warbler
Yellow billed Cuckoo 1
Common Crow
Song Sparrow
Tufted Titmouse
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
Carolina Wren
Cedar Waxwing  6
American Goldfinch
Purple Grackle
White brst Nuthatch
Yellow thrt Vireo
White eyed Vireo
Red eyed Vireo
Eastern Wood Peewee
Wood Thrush
American Robin   1
Prothonotary Warbler
Balt. Oriole
Great crestd flycatcher
Eastern Kingbird
Acadian Flycatcher
Northern Cardinal
Mallard (domestic type)
Wood duck  1
Eastern Bluebird
Barred Owl   2
Gray Catbird  2
Turkey Vulture  4

D.Ford/Bethesda, Md

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