I was joined on Sunday morning by David Sandler for the BBC's field trip  
to Halethorpe Ponds #4 and 5 in Baltimore County. It was a pleasant but  
unremarkable outing as migrants were nearly non-existent and even some of the  
regulars were few. Good numbers of CEDAR WAXWINGS were omnipresent -- they 
seem  to have suddenly returned from oblivion -- and we saw expected numbers 
of  CHIMNEY SWIFT, WARBLING VIREO and YELLOW WARBLER. Other warblers were  
PROTHONOTARY, REDSTART, PARULA and BLACKPOLL, the only migrant. We found  only 
one oriole -- a male ORCHARD ORIOLE. It was good, though, to see an adult  
BLACK-CROWNED NIGHT-HERON on the big pond, a species that seems much less 
common  here than it used to be.
 
Thanks to David for spotting many of the birds that tried to remain  
heard-only. The full eBird list can be found at 
_http://ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist?subID=S10803437_ 
(http://ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist?subID=S10803437) . 
 
Joel Martin
Catonsville, MD

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