Date:         Wed, 12 Jul 2000 01:15:20 -0700
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From:         Charlie <cmmbirds@YAHOO.COM>
Subject:      early migrants
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Hi Marshall and everyone,

We have a few Louisiana Waterthrush territories,
and they haven't all left yet.  Yesterday I
failed to record any at one site, but the weather
wasn't cooperative, so they still may be there.

You didn't ask those 2 in Belize where they came
from, did you?

Charlie
--- Marshall Iliff <Miliff@AOL.COM> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> A quick post, sort of to say "hi" in passing,
> but a comment that perhaps has
> some bearing on birds on MD...
>
> > Many Neotropical Migrants are well into or
> have completed nesting. Now is
> >  when they go through a complete molt and are
> more vulnerable to predation
> >  because of impaired flight.  In a few weeks
> the first southbound warblers
> >  will be passing through.
>
> Nay Jim, they already are (Jim knows that...).
> I am on a 6 hour layover
> between a trip to Chan Chich, Belize, and a
> VENT tour to Washington State.
> Among 160 spp. I had in Belize were: two
> LOUISIANA WATERTHRUSHES on 7 July.
> So...birds are moving.
>
> One aspect of migration in the state that is
> very hard to assess are these
> types of cases.  Louisiana Waterthrush is a
> widespread breeder statewide, so,
> with a few exceptions, any given sighting could
> pertain as easily to a nester
> as a migrant.  It is especially valuable and
> interesting then when people who
> bird a local "patch" (or their yard) intensely
> can pick up on migratory
> movements of such species.  I personally only
> have one fall migrant record
> from my yard of Lousiana Waterthrush (they
> don't nest near my yard at all),
> and it came sometime around 20-30 July.
>
> A few other early migrants that are probably
> moving past us unnoticed already
> include Yellow Warbler, Orchard Oriole, and
> Eastern Kingbird.  If you see
> birds in places that seem "funny" or indicate
> migratory movement, those would
> be of interest to those of us that track such
> things...
>
> Also, if anyone is interested in a trip report
> from my ten day stay at Chan
> Chich Lodge, Belize, I would be glad to send it
> over the next couple weeks.
> A sampling to whet your appetites...Ornate
> Hawk-Eagle, Great Currasow, gobs
> of Ocellated Turkey, three species of toucans,
> Rose-throated and
> Golden-masked Tanagers, four trogons etc....
>
> Best,
>
> Marshall Iliff
> miliff@aol.com
> Annapolis, MD
>
>
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