The highlight from my morning walk around Schoolhouse Pond today was an adult Black-crowned Night Heron on a log towards the rear of the pond among the usual Great Blue and Green Herons.  Also present was a group of 3 or 4 Wood Thrush in a close group near the trail in the woods behind the pond.  Also, I got eye level views of a Prothonatary Warbler.  I've heard this bird occasionally over the last month, but haven't actually been able to spot it for probably six weeks or so.  Other birds included a female Wood Duck with chicks, Indigo Bunting, Common Yellowthroat, Red-eyed Vireo, White-eyed Vireo and lots of Barn Swallows.

Fred Shaffer
Patuxent MOS