To add a bit to Fran's message: Marion and I took an hour or so during the stop-over of the ferry at Smith Island to bird the small patch of scrubby trees and tangled vegetation located within a few hundred yards of the dock as one walks along the shore of the island. Although it was the middle of the day, we did find the following passerines: Great Crested Flycatcher - 1 Empidonax sp. - 2 (silent ) House Wren - 1 Swainson's Thrush - 2 Gray Catbird - several American Redstart - at least 10 Magnolia Warbler - at least 6 Black-and-white Warbler - 1 Chestnut-sided Warbler - 2 Common Yellowthroat - several Palm Warbler - 1 (along the pathway) Rose-breasted Grosbeak - 2 Song Sparrow - several We suppose that many of these individuals were probably migrants. Also reported by the Metters: Pine Warbler Harvey Mudd >From: "Fran Saunders" <saunderf@ARI.Net> >To: mdosprey@ARI.Net >Date: Tue, 21 Sep 1999 04:47:26 -0400 >Subject: [MDOsprey] Smith Island >X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v3.01b) >Sender: owner-mdosprey@ARI.Net >Reply-To: mdosprey@ARI.Net > >As I mentioned in response to Rob's message about the >Monarch's we made the trip to Smith Island on Saturday. >Enjoyed the wonderful company of the Mudd's and the >Metter's. We found nothing really extraordinary (except the >crab cakes), but did want to mention how low the water was. >We have only been to Smith 3 times, but I have never seen >the water this low. Flats were extraordinary and there were >lots of herons and egrets, but not too many shorebirds. >Harvey mentioned a warbler fall out on the island itself, and >the two immature Yellow-crowned Night Herons were still >prancing about, but we were not to be surprised by any >unusual species. Nevertheless, I thought the water levels >worth mentioning. > >Fran >-------------------------------- >Fran Saunders >Web Site Director >Maryland Ornithological Society >Silver Spring, Maryland >webmaster@mdbirds.org >http://www.MDBirds.org ____________________________________ S. Harvey Mudd NIMH/DIRP/LMB Building 36, Room 1B-08 36 CONVENT DR MSC 4034 BETHESDA MD 20892-4034 tel: 301-496-0681; fax 301-402-0245 email: shm@codon.nih.gov