This morning's Monday Morning walk at Huntley Meadows found 17 birders searching for early spring arrivals. Highlights were a pair of Blue Wing Teals in the grassy areas on the far side of the central wetland, an osprey carrying nesting material, a solitary sandpiper, a baker's dozen Wilson's Snipe, and one, lone American Coot who perhaps grew weary of the crowds on the Potomac. Pied-Billed Grebe - 2 Double-Crested Cormorant - 11 Great Blue Heron - 5 Canada Goose - 40 Wood Duck - 4 Green-Winged Teal - 20 Mallard - 8 Blue-Winged Teal - 2 Hooded Merganser - 4 Turkey Vulture - 1 Red-Shouldered Hawk - 2 Osprey - 1 American Coot - 1 Killdeer - 3 Solitary Sandpiper - 1 Wilson's Snipe - 13 Ring-Billed Gull - 2 Mourning Dove - 1 Red-Bellied Woodpecker - 3 Downy Woodpecker - 4 Hairy woodpecker - 2 Eastern Wood Peewee - 1 Eastern Phoebe - 3 Tree Swallow - 9 Northern Rough-Winged Swallow - 3 American Crow - 10 Carolina Chickadee - 8 Tufted Titmouse - 4 White-Breasted Nuthatch - 2 Carolina Wren - 4 Golden-Crowned Kinglet - 1 Blue-Gray Gnatcatcher - 3 Eastern Bluebird - 5 Swainson's Thrush -1 American Robin - 30+ Northern Mockingbird - 1 Brown Thrasher - 1 European Starling - 3 Yellow-Rumped Warbler - 9 Palm Warbler - 5 Northern Cardinal - 5 American Tree Sparrow - 1 Field Sparrow - 1 Song Sparrow - 7 Swamp Sparrow - 12 White-Throated Sparrow - 12 Red-Winged Blackbird - 100+ Rusty Blackbird - 10 Common Grackle - 1 Brown-Headed Cowbird - 2 American Goldfinch - 5 Harry Glasgow Friends of Huntley Meadows aglasgow@cox,net