Hi all, 

We expected a bit more action today at WRP since the weather was so nice, but there had obviously been a large exodus of sparrows and an equally large influx of robins without much else new. The good news is that at least 5 FOX SPARROWS still linger in the area of the bluebird boxes (behind the carousel). Only one pair of Bluebirds in evidence at the nestboxes, last week two pairs were jostling for the territory, with much singing on the part of the two males and inspection of the 6 boxes by the females. Today another pair flew over calling but didn't linger. A Winter Wren was seen and the male Wood Duck was swimming in close company with a male Ring-necked Duck on Pine Lake (a rather odd couple indeed). Otherwise the news was how few common sparrows linger (except Juncos) and how many Robins were around on the grass, and in the woods flipping dead leaves. Two unwelcome Brown-headed Cowbirds puttered around with the many Starlings. However a nice day to be out, as they say, a bad day birding is better than a good day doing anything else! 

Gail Mackiernan and Barry Cooper 
Colesville, MD 

complete eBird report below: 

29 species 

Canada Goose 6 
Wood Duck 1 
Ring-necked Duck 1 
Turkey Vulture 2 
Mourning Dove 11 
Red-bellied Woodpecker 4 
Downy Woodpecker 3 
Hairy Woodpecker 1 
Northern Flicker 1 
Pileated Woodpecker 1 
Blue Jay 8 
American Crow 2 
Carolina Chickadee 3 
Tufted Titmouse 2 
White-breasted Nuthatch 1 
Carolina Wren 2 
Winter Wren 1 
Eastern Bluebird 4 
American Robin 58 
European Starling 35 
Eastern Towhee 1 
Fox Sparrow 5 
Song Sparrow 12 
White-throated Sparrow 6 
Dark-eyed Junco 25 
Northern Cardinal 8 
Brown-headed Cowbird 2 
American Goldfinch 3 
House Sparrow 4 

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

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