Point Lookout, MD.....

BlkVulture@aol.com
Mon, 12 Oct 1998 17:15:10 EDT 

I will pick up where Kurt left off.

On Sunday, 11 Oct 98, Kurt Gaskill and I birded Point Lookout State Park, St.
Mary's County, MD.  We arrived at the point at about 7:30 and left Long Neck
Road at around 16:00.  The weather was pleasant.  Temps started in the low
50's, and peaked probably near 70 or so.  Wind was variable in both speed and
direction.  Early morning had westerly winds, steady at about 20mph, with
higher gusts.  Mid-day had easterly wind, but much calmer.  The wind
eventually swung around to northwest, and remained mild.  Eight-seven species
were observed.  

The following is a list of our sightings: 

(2) common loons
(75+) DC cormorants
(9) great blue herons
(3) Snowy Egrets*
(1) green heron
(1) black-crowned night-heron*
(12) mute swans*
(120-150) Canada geese
(11) black vultures
(30) turkey vultures
(2) osprey
(6) bald eagles
(3) northern harriers
(22) sharpies
(3) Cooper's hawks
(3) red-shouldereds
(2) red-tailed
(21) American kestrels
(1) merlin
(2) peregrines
(8) killdeer
(1) greater legs*
(1) spotted sandpiper*
(4) pectoral sandpipers*
(4) dunlin*
laughing gulls
ring-billed gulls
herring gulls
great black-backed gulls
(1) caspian tern
(5) royal terns
(220) Forster's terns
(5) mourning doves
(1) barred owl
(15) chimney swifts
(2) kingfishers
(4) red-bellied WP
(6) downy WPs
(1) hairy WP
(15) flickers
(34) phoebes
(28) tree swallows
(50-75) blue jays
American crows
fish crows
(15) Carolina chickadees
(1) titmouse
(3) red-breasted nuthatches
(6) brown-headed nuthatches
(3) brown creepers
(16) Carolina wrens
(1) winter wren
(5) GC kinglet
(30) RC Kinglet
(1) blue-gray gnatcatcher
(5) bluebirds
(1) gray-cheeked sp.
(12) wood thrush
(30) catbirds
(5) mockingbirds
(15) brown thrashers
(15) cedar waxwings
starlings
(2) blue-headed vireos
(1) red-eyed vireo
(1) northern parula
(1) chestnut-sided 
(1) magnolia
(2-3) black-throated blue
(50+) yellow-rumps
(2) black-throated green
(2) pine warblers
(5) palm warblers
(3) redstarts
(16) common yellowthroats
(3) scarlet tanagers
(30) cardinals
(15) eastern towhees
(10) chipping sparrow
(4) saltmarsh sharp-tailed sparrows*
(75+) song sparrows
(5) swamp sparrows
(50) white-throats
(12) red-winged blackbirds
(1) eastern meadowlark
(8) goldfinches
(15) house sparrows

*denotes species only seen along Long Neck Road.  All others were seen either
on the point, of at both locations.  

Cheers,

Todd M. Day
Jeffersonton, VA
BlkVulture@AOL.com