EDST March 10, 1974 Al Geis, Columbia, Howard Co.Md. 6-7:45 p.m./ Cool, clear. Woodcock - in fields and dirt roads. 4 calls - up-twitter, down jugs - challenge scold and -- peent. Had 4 males in air at one time. Watched female come to peenting male in road in front of car in headlights. Male moved attack position to car. Red-bellied Woodpecker Starlings Field Sparrows Downy Woodpecker House Sparrow White-throated Sps. 2 red sqs. Common Crows Cardinals common White-crowned Sps. Car. Chickadees House Finch - lF Fox Sparrows Brown Thrasher stayed all winter Slate-color Juncos Song Sparrows. March 20, 1974, C&O to Plummers Island, Mont. Co.Md. 520-6:15 clear, cool, breezy.p.m.EDST Mallard - 1 pr. Wood Duck - 1 pr. Mourning Dove-l Flicker - 2 Red-bellied Wpkr. 1 Pileated Wpkr. - 2 Downy Wpkr - 2 Blue Jays Tufted Titmouse Car. Chickadee W-brstd. Nuthatch Brown Creeper w/ full lovely song. Redwings Starlings Grackles Cardinals White-crowned Sparrro-w2 White-throated Sp. - 1 Song Sparrows Flowering - few of 3950 Virginia Bluebells Spring Beauty Footsteps of Spring Spicebush almost full yellow balls on some trees. March 23, 1974, C&O Canal, Anglers Inn-Lock 16, 9:15-1015 Clear, 35-45o, light breeze. Mallard - 1 pr. on canal Wood Duck - 2 pr. Turkey - 1 called several times Mourning Dove - 1 Kingfisher - 1 Flicker - 1 Downy Woopecker - 1 C. Crows Fish Crows Carolina Chickadees Tufted Titm9use House Wren - 1 Carolina Wren - 4 Gold-crn Kinglet - 2 Creeper - 1 Starlings Cowbird Cardinals White-throated Sp - 15 Slate-color Junco - 30 Song Sparrow - 4. March 24, 1974, Lily Pons area, Fred. Co. Md. 8-8:30-45 a.m. 35o clear, windy. DBM. Horned ? Grebe Blue Heron - 15& in air Mallard Baldpates Green-wing Teal - 2 pr. Wood Ducks - pr on gravel rd in open field, and 40 in flock Hooded Mergansers - 2l&, only 1 full M TV's Broadwing Hk perched in tree Pheasant - 1 pr. Bobwhite - 8 crossed road Killdeer - several Common Snipe - 1 Kingfisher - 1 Flicker Red-bld Wpkr. Phoebe C. Crows - many Blue Jay - 1 Titmouse - 1 Robins - big flock & others Pipit - 2 over Meadowlarks common Redwings Cowbirds Grackles 3951 3952 Mar. 24, 1974 - New Design Road - 9-9:15 . sctd. clds, windy. TV's Pheasant Crows Horned Larks Robins Pipits Redwings Grackles, Mdlks, and Song Sps. 3953 March 24, 1974, Hughes Hollow, Mont. Co. Md. 10-10:45. Windy, cold, brkn. clds. DBM. Hallard - 4 Baldpates - 10-12 Blue-wing Teal - 25& all male? Gr-wing Teal - 2 pr. Woodies - prs. Turkey Vultures Red-tailed Hawk - 1 Coot - 4 C. Snipe - 8-10 & (Hairy Wpkr. - 1) Horned Larks (Tree Swallow - 3) Titmouse Carolina Wren Redwings Rusty Blackbirds - flock of 100&, in tree tops and in swamp brush, down out of wind. Chucks like Brewer Grackles Cowbirds Song Sparrows 3954