Today is my field day so I got to go out and play for pay! Earlier this morning, while it was still in the 30s, bird activity seemed fairly slow. However, by the time I headed out to do stream monitoring, things had livened up a little. A Yellow-throated Warbler was singing up near the meteorological tower where one can normally be found. 

I flushed a Green Heron at the beaver pond. Not sure if this is a new arrival or if it's the same bird that was here earlier? I'm 3 for 3 months with GRHEs this year!

Also, at the weir building where my automated stream sampler sits, a very agitated Eastern Phoebe alerted me to the nest that they constructed since I was there last Friday. Interesting how they used an old mud daubber nest to build off of.

I linked a couple of pix in my eBird checklist below:
http://ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist?subID=S10278234

Now if I can just find a gnatcatcher and a hummer in March...

Tyler Bell

California, Maryland

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