Greetings all.
Yesterday Chris Starling and I did the big sit at Turkey Point. We had a good day despite the winds built up to 25 mph. After that, things kind of shut down accept for raptor migration. Anyway, Chris will send that out on his report.
We observed a very large group of Tufted Titmice at the point 30 birds (give or take) that appeared to be extremely anxious about wanting crossing the river/bay. Now that would be normal for our typical migrants, but in all the years of going to Turkey Point, I have never observed what I consider to be Titmouse migration. Then Chris and I had a discussion about the invasions of Black capped Chickadees that we get once every 5 to 8 years and wondered if the Northern US or Canadian Titmice could pattern the same as the Northern US and Canadian Chickadees. Because it was documented (where, I don�t remember) that the invasions of Black-capped Chickadees are a Northern Chickadee from Maine and Canada and not local Black-caps that just shifted down 30 or 40 miles.
Chris had also mentioned that he had observed another large flock of Titmice the week prior and thought it odd as well.
If anyone has information on this, or has observed the same thing, please feel free to share.
Sean McCandless
Elkton MD
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