Hi all --

I will start at the end of our morning, when we drove from Wheaton 
Regional Park (where there was no sign of the Olive-sided in the big oak 
in the Shorefield paring lot) to the Visitor's Center lot at Brookside 
Gardens -- to find the adult OLIVE-SIDED FLYCATCHER still parolling the 
tall snags around the lot. This was at 9:30 AM. In fact, we had met another 
birder who said she had seen an OSFC there on SUNDAY, so if it's the 
same bird, it is hanging around.

We arrived at The Shorefield entrance to Wheaton RP at about 6:45 to find 
-- not much action! However things soon picked up and we enjoyed a very 
nice, albeit not overwheming, morning. There were nine species of 
warbler (including some smashing looks at several Canadas and 
Blackburnians) and perhaps one other (see below), quite a few other 
flycatchers, many vireos and a smattering of other migrants. Most of the 
activity was along the west side of Pine Lake and in vines along the 
mini-train tracks nearby. Other than the OSFC and a single Ovenbird, the 
Gardens were very quiet -- but it was getting late by then.

Birds of interest:

Green Heron - 4 (two juveniles were having a squabble)
Red- Shouldered Hawk - 1
Chimney Swift - 7-8
Ruby-throated Hummingbird - 5
Pileated Woodpecker - 1
Northern Flicker - 8
OLIVE-SIDED FLYCATCHER - 1
Eastern Wood-pewee - 9-10
Acadian Flycatcher - 4 (one a young bird begging from calling adult)
"Traill's" Flycatcher - 1
LEAST FLYCATCHER - 1
Empid sp. - 3
Great Crested Flycatcher - 2
Yellow-throated Vireo - 1
Red-eyed Vireo - 16
Barn Swallow - 6 (several young birds being fed on the wing by parents)
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher - 6 
Eastern Bluebird - fly-over calling
Wood Thrush - 1
Cedar Waxwing - 25 or so in several flocks
Blue-winged Warbler - 1
Chestnut-sided Warbler - 3
Magnolia Warbler - 6
Black-and-white Warbler - 2
BLACKBURNIAN WARBLER - 4 (two HY, 1 F, 1 brilliant M)
Canada Warbler - 5 (!)
Ovenbird - 1
Common Yellowthroat - 1
American Redstart - 3
Also a probable F/imm. WILSON'S WARBLER (glimpsed only briefly in 
thick vines) - very small size, plain yellow face, lack of wingbars, all
yellow 
underparts. Other possibility would be immature Yellow but seemed too 
small and compact. Seems a bit early for Wilson's though.
Scarlet Tanager - 4
Eastern Towhee - 2
Chipping Sparrow - 20+
Baltimore Oriole - 3

Also, a hoard of Common Grackles everywhere in the Park! 

Gail Mackiernan and Barry Cooper
Colesville, MD







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