Had a nice morning walk at Layhill Park 9/8, but this a.m. in my Rockville backyard was just as thrilling--one of our best backyard sits ever (from 7:10-8:30 a.m.). For a few moments there, our postage-stamp backyard felt like our own little Pt. Pelee. Ain't migration grand? The two lists are below: Layhill 9/8: Backyard 9/9: 1.Canada Goose 12 2. Wood Duck 1 3. Turkey Vulture 1 4. Red-shouldered Hawk 1 5. Cooper's Hawk 1 6. Rock Dove 6 7. Mourning Dove 8 4 8. Chimney Swift 12 9. Ruby-throated Hummer 1 1 10. Belted Kingfisher 1 11. Red-bellied Wdpckr 3 1 12. Downy Woodpecker 3 2 13. Pileated Wdpckr 1 14. Eastern Pewee 4 15. Eastern Kingbird 1 16. Blue Jay 8 17. American Crow 6 3 18. Carolina Chickadee 9 4 19. Tufted Titmouse 3 2 20. Carolina Wren 4 2 21. House Wren 1 22. Blue-gray Gnatcatc. 4 1 23. Eastern Bluebird 4 24. American Robin 11 2 25. Gray Catbird 20 1 26. No. Mockingbird 2 27. Cedar Waxwing 22 40 28. European Starling 8 6 29. PHILADELPHIA VIREO 1 30. Red-eyed Vireo 2 2 31. Nashville Warbler 1 32. No. Parula Warbler 2 33. Chestnut-sided W. 2 1 34. Magnolia Warbler 2 35. Black-thr. Blue W. 1 1 36. Blackburnian W. 1 1 37. Tennessee Warbler 1 38. American Redstart 6 2 39. Common Yellowthroat 4 40. WILSON'S WARBLER 1 41. Canada Warbler 1 42. Northern Cardinal 10 2 43. Rose-breasted Grosb. 1 44. Indigo Bunting 1 45. Eastern Towhee 2 46. Common Grackle 1 1 47. BH Cowbird 1 48. Baltimore Oriole 1 1 49. House Finch 10 8 50. American Goldfinch 18 16 51. House Sparrow 6 Howard Youth Rockville, MD hmyouth@erols.com