It was nice to be back in the park after a week-long absence due to my strep fun.  Highlight was a LINCOLN'S SPARROW (thanks Bonnie for the insight and inspiration). I didn't have to try very hard... Just be patient. The bird popped up out of a puddle near the entrance gate.  I only needed for it to dry off a bit to confirm it.  It was buried in a hedge, but I could make out all the right details. I find this bird to be very hard to find in the spring down here on the coastal plain.

Other highlights: two NORTHERN WATERTHRUSH, a spontaneously-vocal Screech (I wasn't whistling or playing any tape, just being...), and the welcome vocals of The Eastern Wood Pewee, Wood Thush and Acadian Flycatcher. Lastly, I've always heard from the rangers about the Barred Owls that live in the park. Well, after umpteen  hundred visits, I finally saw two of them.

> Sandy Point State Park, Anne Arundel, US-MD
> May 5, 2012 6:59 AM - 11:59 AM
> Protocol: Traveling
> 3.0 mile(s)
> Comments:      <br />Submitted from BirdLog NA for iOS, version 1.4.2
> 80 species (+1 other taxa)
> 
> Canada Goose  1
> Mallard  1
> Double-crested Cormorant  25
> Great Blue Heron  1
> Black Vulture  4
> Turkey Vulture  1
> Osprey  2
> Solitary Sandpiper  2
> peep sp.  3     Flying at first light with DCCO. Likely least or semis
> Ring-billed Gull  15
> Herring Gull  2
> Great Black-backed Gull  1
> Caspian Tern  2
> Royal Tern  3
> Rock Pigeon  2
> Mourning Dove  2
> Yellow-billed Cuckoo  1
> Eastern Screech-Owl  1
> Barred Owl  2
> Red-bellied Woodpecker  5
> Downy Woodpecker  2
> Hairy Woodpecker  1
> Northern Flicker (Yellow-shafted)  1
> Pileated Woodpecker  1
> Eastern Wood-Pewee  2
> Acadian Flycatcher  6
> Great Crested Flycatcher  2
> Eastern Kingbird  4
> White-eyed Vireo  6
> Red-eyed Vireo  19
> Blue Jay  15
> American Crow  8
> Fish Crow  5
> Purple Martin  4
> Barn Swallow  4
> Carolina Chickadee  13
> Tufted Titmouse  13
> White-breasted Nuthatch  1
> Carolina Wren  12
> House Wren  1
> Marsh Wren  2
> Blue-gray Gnatcatcher  10
> Veery  1
> Wood Thrush  8
> American Robin  18
> Gray Catbird  2
> Northern Mockingbird  3
> Brown Thrasher  3
> European Starling  3
> Cedar Waxwing  2
> Ovenbird  10
> Northern Waterthrush  2
> Black-and-white Warbler  5
> Common Yellowthroat  10
> American Redstart  5
> Northern Parula  18
> Chestnut-sided Warbler  1
> Blackpoll Warbler  5
> Black-throated Blue Warbler  11
> Pine Warbler  1
> Yellow-rumped Warbler (Myrtle)  3
> Yellow-throated Warbler  1
> Prairie Warbler  1
> Black-throated Green Warbler  1
> Yellow-breasted Chat  1
> Eastern Towhee  9
> Chipping Sparrow  2
> Lincoln's Sparrow  1
> White-throated Sparrow  1
> Scarlet Tanager  5
> Northern Cardinal  17
> Rose-breasted Grosbeak  3
> Indigo Bunting  7
> Red-winged Blackbird  11
> Common Grackle  3
> Common Grackle (Purple)  4
> Brown-headed Cowbird  3
> Orchard Oriole  1
> Baltimore Oriole  1
> House Finch  6
> American Goldfinch  3
> 
> This report was generated automatically by eBird v3 (http://ebird.org)

Good Birding,

Dan Haas
St. Margaret's, MD
Nervousbirdsatgmail.com
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