Spent a chilly morning at the beach at Flag Ponds. Sorry to say, not a
single peep and only one NORTHERN GANNET on the wing and only BUFFLEHEADS
in the water. A flock of eight DOUBLE CRESTED CORMORANTS flew overhead, if
only they had been Anhingas! After getting Tyler Bell's call on my cell
phone I did keep an eye to the sky. It took four hours for it to warm up
enough for me to see my first butterfly and in that moment a flock of four
yellow PALM WARBLERS appeared. The rest of the highlights (only 47 species)
were:

Bonaparte's Gulls -- 17
Forster's Tern -- 1
Gadwall -- 3
Wood Duck -- 2
Pied-billed Grebe -- 1
Great Blue Heron -- 2
Bald Eagle -- 1 adult near nest
Osprey -- 2
Red-shouldered Hawk -- 1
Yellow-rumped Warbler -- 15
Yellow-throated Warbler -- 12
Pine Warbler -- 5
Ruby-crowned Kinglet -- 7
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher -- 8
Tree Swallow -- 5
Northern Rough-winged Swallow -- 6

Butterflies:
Spring Azure
Red Admiral
Clouded Sulphur
Orange Sulphur
Zebra Swallowtail
Eastern Tiger Swallowtail
American Lady
Pearl Crescent
Eastern Comma

I then took an hour stroll on the trail at Hall Creek NRMA in Dunkirk.
Birds seen:

Double-crested Cormorant -- 2
Great Blue Heron -- 2
Palm Warbler -- 5
Black-and-white Warbler -- 2
Yellow-throated Warbler -- 1
Pine Warbler -- 1
Red-headed Woodpecker -- 1
Red-bellied Woodpecker -- 2
Northern Flicker --1
Pileated Woodpecker -- 1
Ruby-crowned Kinglet -- 3
Eastern Towhee - 2
Dark-eyed Junco - 12
Chipping Sparrow -- 4
Northern Cardinal -- 2

Nice and warm by 3 PM and some pretty good butterflies:

Mourning Cloak
Eastern Comma
Spring Azure
Falcate Orangetip
Henry's Elfin
Eastern Tiger Swallowtail
Juvenal's Duskywing






Arlene Ripley
Calvert County, MD

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