Heello all, Spent most of Friday birding the Eastern Shore. A few quick highlights. - 1 Least Bittern and 1 Sedge Wren singing from 2:30 am-8:30 am at Truitt's Landing, 2 King Rails heard and one seen well there as well. 1 Northern Waterthrush singing at dawn. All ibis were Glossy. - 3 Sandwich Terns on Skimmer Island, Ocean City - FANTASTIC seawatching on east winds from 4:50-6:20. It all began with a very close SOOTY SHEARWATER. For those of you familiar with the inlet, it almost passed inside the red buoy off the north jetty. It was followed closely by a Parasitic Jaeger winging quickly north at about the same distance. Then a jaeger sp. but after that no real pelagics for the next hour and a half. Some highlights were a steady stream of gannets and loons (both species), 23 Black Scoters (1 flock), and 6 scoter sp., 7 Red-breasted Mergansers (3,4), 80 Whimbrel (1 flock), flocks of 200 and 160 SB Dowitchers, 2 Brown Pelicans, 9 Great Blue Herons (one flock). - As I'm sure those of you afield have realized by now, last night was a GREAT night for migration. I realized that at 12:15 am after seeing Star Wars. Swainson's Thrushes were passing over in a steady stream. I spent the next 2.5 hours enjoying the night migration but have not yet totaled my numbers. I would guess: 3 Great Blue Herons, 6 Green Herons, 4 probable Least Bitterns, 1 Black-crowned Night-Heron, 2 Spotted Sandpipers (no other shorebirds :-(),25 Yellow-billed and 6 Black-billed Cuckoos, 300+ Swainson's Thrushes, 100+ Gray-cheeked Thrushes (including about 1/15 that sounded VERY high pitched and not as sharply two noted...), 8 Veeries, 5 Wood Thrushes, 1 Red-eyed Vireo (sang one phrase once!), 2 Common Yellowthroats (sang overhead!), Black-throated Blue Warbler (1 probable), Cape May Warbler (a lot of short zeet notes might have been this species), Blackpoll-type Warbler (only a few that I thought were of this type rather than Cape May, but I'm still learning these notes), Indigo Bunting (45), White-throated Sparrow (1), A TON of stuff I didn't recognize. In any event it was a joy to listen to... Can't wait to hear what people find today...I had to sleep in cause I exhausted myself last night! Best, Marshall Iliff miliff@aol.com