While my wife and son played on the playground, I strolled around Elm's
Beach. Directly across from the play area (pond side), two YELLOW-THROATED
WARBLERS and several PINE WARBLERS were singing in the treetops and afforded
great looks. 

Fiona and I also spotted a PALM WARBLER (western) sitting in the middle of
Demko Road. I stopped the car and allowed it to fly off. We were staying
with Fiona's mother, Anne Bishop, and wandering the edge of the woods along
the property, I heard a LOUISIANA WATERTHRUSH by the creek.

Also, on our way to Courtney's restaurant, I saw two CHIMNEY SWIFTS fly
across a field on Wynne Road Monday afternoon. 

My eleven-month-old son, Kermit, started pishing this weekend. I think we're
going to have to start putting him in bed with Stoke's CD's playing from now
on...

Good birding,
Matt Tillett
Linthicum, MD
www.flickr.com/photos/mattyfioner

Common Loon    2
Double-crested Cormorant    20
Great Blue Heron    1
Turkey Vulture    3
Osprey    6
Bald Eagle    1
Accipiter sp.    1
Laughing Gull    5
Ring-billed Gull    3
Herring Gull    2
Mourning Dove    2
Red-bellied Woodpecker    1
American Crow    3
Tree Swallow    2
Carolina Chickadee    2
Brown-headed Nuthatch    1
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher    4
Eastern Bluebird    2
American Robin    1
Gray Catbird    1
Northern Mockingbird    1
Brown Thrasher    2
Yellow-throated Warbler    2
Pine Warbler    4
Eastern Towhee    1
Chipping Sparrow    3
Song Sparrow    6
Northern Cardinal    2
Red-winged Blackbird    7
Common Grackle    3
Brown-headed Cowbird    1
American Goldfinch    1
House Sparrow    2

Location:    Home (Around my mother-in-law's house on Demko Rd.)
Observation date:    4/14/08
Number of species:    37

Canada Goose    2
Mallard    3
Turkey Vulture    3
Osprey    2
Bald Eagle    1
Red-tailed Hawk    1
Mourning Dove    2
Chimney Swift    1
Red-bellied Woodpecker    1
Downy Woodpecker    1
Blue Jay    2
American Crow    6
Fish Crow    2
Carolina Chickadee    2
Tufted Titmouse    2
Brown Creeper    1
Ruby-crowned Kinglet    3
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher    9
Eastern Bluebird    3
American Robin    2
Gray Catbird    1
Northern Mockingbird    4
Brown Thrasher    2
European Starling    10
Yellow-rumped Warbler (Myrtle)    2
Pine Warbler    3
Palm Warbler (Western)    1
Louisiana Waterthrush    1
Eastern Towhee    2
Field Sparrow    3
Song Sparrow    7
Northern Cardinal    4
Red-winged Blackbird    11
Common Grackle    8
American Goldfinch    1
House Sparrow    3

Location:    Smith Creek
Observation date:    4/14/08
Number of species:    38

Canada Goose    6
Mallard    2
Bufflehead    2
Common Loon    1
Double-crested Cormorant    2
Black Vulture    3
Turkey Vulture    11
Osprey    3
Bald Eagle    1
Red-shouldered Hawk    1
Laughing Gull    4
Ring-billed Gull    2
Herring Gull    3
Mourning Dove    2
Chimney Swift    1
Red-bellied Woodpecker    2
Downy Woodpecker    1
Blue Jay    1
American Crow    5
Fish Crow    2
Purple Martin    4
Brown-headed Nuthatch    1
Carolina Wren    1
Ruby-crowned Kinglet    1
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher    3
Eastern Bluebird    6
American Robin    17
Northern Mockingbird    3
Brown Thrasher    1
European Starling    11
Yellow-rumped Warbler (Myrtle)    1
Song Sparrow    2
Northern Cardinal    3
Red-winged Blackbird    1
Common Grackle    32
House Finch    5
American Goldfinch    1
House Sparrow    3