Birded the last scheduled walk at Cylburn city park w/Joe Lewandowski. 
All the no-shows hopefully had better luck elsewhere. Not much to see or
hear, save Robins, Catbirds and constantly serenading WOOD THRUSH
[a good thing]. Joe called it quits shortly after we started down the 
infamous, steep "trail" to the city stump dump below. I persevered, work-
ing my way around numerous deadfall trees blocking the "path" and
dangerously gullied-out portions of the last half down, and added some
good species additions on the way down to those  in the vicinity of a
 swampy area adjacent to the stump dump. Seen/heard [22spp]:
T Vulture
B Vulture
RT Hawk
Rock Dove
RB W'pkr
GC Flycatcher
Acadian Fly'r
E Wood Pewee
RW Swallow
Barn Swallow
C C'dee
Tufted Tit
C Wren
RE Vireo
WARBLING VIREO
YELLOW WARBLER
RW Blackbird
BALTO. ORIOLE
C Grackle
SCARLET TANAGER
E Towhee
Song Sparrow

Others/heard "topside" [12, incl. 3 in opening comments]
M Dove
Blue Jay
A Crow
Crow sp.
N Mockingbird
House Wren[on my return topside]
N Cardinal
A Goldfinch
Chipping Sparrow[return topside]

During my plodding ascent back topside, paying obeisance to those 85
years, I took a short sit on a log in the shade and enjoyed an unexpected
highlight of the day. Just before sitting, I flushed a red bird, which I
followed w/the bins & had a brief look at a Cardinal. Shortly afterwards,
I spotted a red bird working its way down from the canopy overhead. 
When I got the bins on it in a small shrub just 15 feet away, I was de-
lighted to see a male Scarlet Tanager, resplendent in its spring plumage.
It would alternately sing and give its "chick-burr" call. I enjoyed several
long looks before it went back topside--a welcome "plus" to an other-
wise sad reminder of spring migration's imminent end.
Paul Noell
Balto   MD


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