Hi all, 

Well, so much for March coming "in like a lion" although it was getting a wee bit breezy later in the morning. We revisited Wheaton Regional Park and did a bit of Brookside Nature Ctr. (the Gardens were noisy with unnecessary, IMHO, leaf-blowing). Best birds were continuing FOX SPARROWS and FOS BROWN THRASHER, all in WRP near the mini-train tracks. One male Wood Duck continues at Pine Lake, no geese (not complaining!). Very few White-throats, they seem to have thinned out considerably since Tuesday. Lots of calling and singing and the Bluebirds were investigating the nest boxes. Expect Tree Swallows any day now... One of the Red-shoulders was carrying nesting material, a few small twigs. We had a few Cedar Waxwings in our yard this morning but none at the park. 

Following is our complete eBird report. 

Gail Mackiernan and Barry Cooper 
Colesville, MD 

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Wheaton Regional Park and Brookside Gardens, Montgomery, US-MD 
Mar 1, 2012 8:30 AM - 10:00 AM 
Protocol: Traveling 
2.0 mile(s) 
Comments: very warm, sunny day; started to get breezy towards end of walk 
31 species (+1 other taxa) 

Wood Duck 1 
Mallard 2 
Great Blue Heron 1 
Turkey Vulture 3 
Red-shouldered Hawk 2 
Mourning Dove 8 
Red-bellied Woodpecker 1 
Downy Woodpecker 1 
Hairy Woodpecker 1 
Northern Flicker 1 
Pileated Woodpecker 2 
Blue Jay 3 
American Crow 2 
crow sp. 3 
Carolina Chickadee 5 
Tufted Titmouse 2 
Carolina Wren 3 
Winter Wren 1 
Eastern Bluebird 4 
American Robin 28 
Northern Mockingbird 1 
Brown Thrasher 1 first of season 
European Starling 12 
Eastern Towhee 1 
Fox Sparrow 8 
Song Sparrow 23 
White-throated Sparrow 2 
Dark-eyed Junco 15 
Red-winged Blackbird 7 
Common Grackle 8 
House Finch 2 
American Goldfinch 6 

This report was generated automatically by eBird v3 (http://ebird.org) 

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