Hi all, 

A warm but bit foggy morning at 8:30 AM; not as much activity as hoped. However with perseverance some nice birds were seen. A good number of FOX SPARROWS linger, many were singing today. PHOEBES are calling at the various ponds in the park and in Brookside Gardens. No sign of other early migrants however, for example, the Tree Swallows are not back yet at Pine Lake. A single HERMIT THRUSH in the Gardens. Far fewer Song Sparrows but still good numbers of both Fox and White-throats and FOS Chipping Sparrow seen. Three immature Red-shouldered Hawks were flying together, calling loudly, and then all perching together over the Brookside Garden greenhouses, much to the interest of the many (flower) photographers there. From size, appeared to be two males and a large female. 

The full eBird list is below. 

Gail Mackiernan and Barry Cooper 
Colesville, MD 

Canada Goose 37 
Mallard 5 
Red-shouldered Hawk 3 
Mourning Dove 7 
Red-bellied Woodpecker 4 
Downy Woodpecker 2 
Northern Flicker 1 
Pileated Woodpecker 1 
Eastern Phoebe 3 
Blue Jay 4 
American Crow 2 
Fish Crow 15 vocal group flocking together 
crow sp. 7 
Carolina Chickadee 4 
Tufted Titmouse 6 
White-breasted Nuthatch 1 
Carolina Wren 1 
Winter Wren 1 
Ruby-crowned Kinglet 1 heard only 
Eastern Bluebird 2 at nest box 
Hermit Thrush 1 
American Robin 45 
European Starling 8 
Eastern Towhee 1 
Chipping Sparrow 1 
Fox Sparrow 8 
Song Sparrow 12 
White-throated Sparrow 11 
Dark-eyed Junco 7 
Northern Cardinal 12 
Red-winged Blackbird 6 
Common Grackle 20 
Brown-headed Cowbird 3 
American Goldfinch 5 
House Sparrow 3 

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

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