With a very nice 70-species day at Jug Bay (both PG and Anne Arundel sides
of it), we would like to officially welcome the following species back to
MD.  While I had seen a few of these, Laura hadn't so now they are official.
(These are the first-of -year highlights)

Eastern Kingbird
Great Crested Flycatcher
Acadian Flycatcher
Chimney Swift
Wood Thrush
Red-eyed Vireo
Northern Parula
Prothonotary Warbler (!)
Black-and-white Warbler
Black-throated Blue Warbler
Prairie Warbler
Hooded Warbler
Common Yellowthroat
Ovenbird
Summer Tanager \ Both seen at same location!
Scarlet Tanager   /

    A very good day. Parula and Ovenbird were so thick we were never out of
earshot of one.
    Happiness is having a Prothonotary sing a circle around the blind you
are sitting in so close you finally take down the bins.
    At the tower on the drive over to Merkle, a Gnatcatcher came in so close
we were wondering if he would perch on us. On the way down we stopped to
admire an under-construction Phoebe nest.
    Ospreys are really at it. Literally. We caught two different pairs in
the act! Horny devils! Or as Archie Bunker once observed, "Right in th'
middle of th' day."
    Jerry