My wife and I spent a couple of hours hiking around Point Lookout State Park on Monday morning in on-and-off light rain showers. Our best bird was a Black-billed Cuckoo seen clearly at close range at the Fort Lincoln historical site.
Other highlights included a swirling swarm of migrating Tree Swallows near the marshy pond out by the point (850 is my conservative guess, but possibly >1000 birds), Brown Pelicans (8), Forster's Terns (4), Red-breasted Nuthatches (4), a nice group of Brown-headed Nuthatches (9) on the Periwinkle Point Trail, and numerous Eastern Phoebes, kinglets (both), Palm and Yellow-rumped Warblers (also a few Pines), White-throated Sparrows, and a single Junco. Also saw at least two Cackling Geese fly-over with a small group of Canadas (ID'd by much smaller size and high-pitched squeaky honks).
Scott Loss
Washington DC
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