[MDOsprey] More Nighthawks

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Hi Everyone,

While heading to North Branch this evening around 7:00, I noticed a
group of Nighthawks overhead.  After screeching to a stop, I was able to
count about 30 heading rapidly south.  About 45 minutes earlier I had
checked the Potomac at Cumberland at the terminus of the C&O Canal and
had picked out about a dozen Nighthawks among a huge group of Chimney
Swifts swirling far downriver.  The birds seen later could certainly
have been the same birds.  Not much in the way of shorebirds at either
the Potomac or North Branch.

Highlights from Monday, Sept. 6, were:

Rocky Gap -

Pied-billed Grebe  1
Broadwing that snagged lunch and halted most of the activity
Brown Thrasher
Red-eyed Vireo   2
Pine Warbler   1
Scarlet Tanager
Rose-breasted Grosbeak   2

Mason Road -

Turkey    17
Blackpoll    1

Happy trails ....

Ray Kiddy
Cumberland, MD
rrkiddy@hereintown.net

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