Five of us braved the cold morning 
temperatures to bird at Gt. Falls Park, Maryland.  The bird count was not 
bad, and we enjoyed some blooming wildflowers.

 
Double-crested cormorants
Great blue herons (a dozen or more flying 
overhead)
Canada Geese
Mallard pairs
Lesser Scaup-small raft
Common merganser (gorgeous male showing off by flying in 
front of the 
                                               
viewing platform)
Black vultures
Turkey vultures
Bald eagle (one high up in the sky)
Red-tailed hawk
Mourning doves
Red-bellied woodpecker
Downy woodpecker (heard)
Northern flicker (heard)
Eastern phoebes
Tree swallows
Blue jay (heard)
American crow (heard)
Carolina chickadees
Tufted titmice
White-breaster nuthatch
Brown creeper
Carolina wrens (heard)
Golden-crowned kinglet
Eastern bluebirds
American robins
Yellow-rumped warbler
Northern cardinals
White-throated sparrow (heard)
Common grackle flocks
Brown-headed cowbird pair
American goldfinches
 
32 species
 
Wildflowers admired:  Spring Beauties, Dutchman's 
Breeches, and several small 
                                       patches 
of Virginia Bluebells in full bloom.  Also the Paw-
                                       
paws are in full bloom.  
 
See you next week at Hughes Hollow 		 	   		  
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