Hi all, 

A bit of a late start due to our oldest dog's illness, but we went up to the Pine Lake area of Wheaton Regional Park and found a few nice migrants. Best was a singing male PROTHONOTARY WARBLER along the lake, the first for us at this site and also, one of a handful of this species we've ever seen on migration. A VEERY at a fruiting shadbush was a FOS, as was a heard-only WOOD-PEWEE. Eleven species of warbler were seen. Otherwise, pretty much the expected birds -- though a large increase in singing Ovenbirds, Red-eyed Vireos and Baltimore Orioles since last visit. Wish we had gotten there early as things shut down quickly as the day warmed. 

Full eBird list follows: 

Gail Mackiernan and Barry Cooper 
Colesville, MD 

Wheaton Regional Park and Brookside Gardens, Montgomery, US-MD 
May 4, 2012 8:00 AM - 10:15 AM 
Protocol: Traveling 
2.5 mile(s) 
Comments: sunny and warm early, rapid drop-off of activity 
58 species (+1 other taxa) 

Canada Goose 6 
Mallard 3 
Red-shouldered Hawk 1 
American Coot 1 
Mourning Dove 4 
Chimney Swift 6 
Red-bellied Woodpecker 2 
Downy Woodpecker 1 
Hairy Woodpecker 1 
Pileated Woodpecker 1 
Eastern Wood-Pewee 1 first of season 
Acadian Flycatcher 1 
Eastern Phoebe 1 
Great Crested Flycatcher 3 
Yellow-throated Vireo 1 
Red-eyed Vireo 10 
Blue Jay 3 
American Crow 4 
crow sp. 2 
Tree Swallow 4 
Barn Swallow 12 
Carolina Chickadee 2 
Tufted Titmouse 1 
White-breasted Nuthatch 1 
Carolina Wren 5 
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher 3 
Veery 1 first of season 
Swainson's Thrush 1 
Wood Thrush 3 
American Robin 15 
Gray Catbird 20 "best estimate" 
European Starling 8 
Cedar Waxwing 16 
Ovenbird 8 
Northern Waterthrush 1 
Prothonotary Warbler 1 unusual at this site; singing male along lake 
Common Yellowthroat 2 
American Redstart 3 
Northern Parula 3 
Magnolia Warbler 1 
Blackburnian Warbler 1 
Chestnut-sided Warbler 1 
Yellow-rumped Warbler 9 
Black-throated Green Warbler 2 
Eastern Towhee 3 
Chipping Sparrow 6 
Field Sparrow 1 
Song Sparrow 2 
White-throated Sparrow 4 
Scarlet Tanager 1 
Northern Cardinal 7 
Indigo Bunting 2 
Red-winged Blackbird 5 
Common Grackle 15 
Brown-headed Cowbird 3 
Baltimore Oriole 6 
House Finch 3 
American Goldfinch 8 
House Sparrow 2 

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



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