Hi all --

Felt a bit like autumn this morning and Barry and I thought it was time for 
our first trip out to Wheaton Regional Park, Montgomery Co. Not a lot of 
activity but a few interesting birds were seen. Almost our first bird was a 
young Redstart but other than that, no other warblers. However the habitat 
looks great (lots of food plants loaded with berries) so the best is yet to 
come!

We had a good selection of flycatchers -- 5 species. Some birds appear to 
have left -- the breeding Tree Swallows at Pine Lake are gone and the 
Barn Swallow colony at the Gude Gardens is down to 1-2 birds. And 
despite plenty of muddy verge along Pine Lake, no shorebirds alas...

Birds of interest:

Green Heron - 3
Red-shouldered Hawk - 1
Belted Kingfisher - 1
Yellow-billed Cuckoo - 1
Ruby-throated Hummingbird - 1
Eastern Wood-pewee - 3
Eastern Phoebe - 2
Great Crested Flycatcher - 2
Acadian Flycatcher - 1 bright juvenile
WILLOW FLYCATCHER (probable)  - 1 (fresh plumage, quite grayish 
overall, short primary projection, small eyering, bright wingbars)
Red-eyed Vireo - 6 (including parent feeding large fledgling)
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher - 8
Eastern Bluebird - heard flying over
American Redstart - 1 imm.
Eastern Towhee - 3 (2 imm.)
Chipping Sparrow - 6-8 (2 imm.)
Baltimore Oriole - 1 female

Plus the usual suspects...

Gail Mackiernan and Barry Cooper
Colesville, MD







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