Hello all, This morning my father Mike and I birded the MBNP. We entered at the Stone Bridge at about 8:45am. We stayed until 10:45. The temp started at about 60, up to as high as about 70. Light breeze from the west. New arrival for me was a single Solitary Sandpiper. The bird was seen wading and bobbing in the mud in Bull Run. The list: Canada Goose (4) Sharp-shinned Hawk (1) Solitary Sandpiper (1) Common Snipe (8) Mourning Dove (3) Belted Kingfisher (1) Red-bellied Woodpecker (4) Yellow-bellied Sapsucker (1) Downy Woodpecker (5) Hairy Woodpecker (2) Northern Flicker (6) Eastern Phoebe (3) Tree Swallow (1) Blue Jay (2) American Crow (10) Carolina Chickadee (15) 2 entering a cavity Tufted Titmouse (6) White-breasted Nuthatch (1) Carolina Wren (4) Ruby-crowned Kinglet (2) both singing Blue-gray Gnatcatcher (3) Eastern Bluebird (2) American Robin (8) Brown Thrasher (1) European Starling (20) Yellow-rumped Warbler (65) Pine Warbler (6) Northern Cardinal (5) Eastern Towhee (1) Field Sparrow (9) Savannah Sparrow (20) Song Sparrow (1) Red-winged Blackbird (2) Eastern Meadowlark (1) Common Grackle (2) Brown-headed Cowbird (7) American Goldfinch (8) Todd Day Jeffersonton, VA BlkVulture@aol.com