Since I am still looking for my first Calvert Co Anhinga, I decided to
take Jim Stasz's advice.  Thus I spent several hours Saturday looking up
into the sky from the deck and yard of our place at Scientists' Cliffs.
(The view from the yard included a wider patch of sky over land than one
can scan from the cliff-top location I usually use to scan the Bay.)

MD: Calvert Co: Scientists' Cliffs
17 April 2004, 0920 to 1500 EDT:
17 to 28 C; sunny, mostly clear with scattered high, thin clouds at
times; winds variable, NW to SSW, 5 -15 km/hr;

Common Loon 7
Double Crested Cormorant 18
Black Vulture  2
Turkey Vulture 7 mig  (+ 4 local)
Osprey  4 mig (+ 3 local)
Bald Eagle  2 ad, 1 near-adult, 1 2nd year;  (the 2 ad are local, the
other birds may be as well)
N Harrier  1 (m)
Sharp Shinned Hawk  33
Cooper's Hawk  4
Accipter spp  2
Red Shouldered Hawk  5 mig (+ 1 local)
Broad Winged Hawk  9
Red Tailed Hawk  1
American Kestrel  3

other migrants passing well overhead included  3 Chimney Swift,  2 E.
Kingbird,  12 Tree Swallow, 4 N Rough-Winged Swallow, 5 Barn Swallow, 80
Red-Winged Blackbird;

Sherman Suter
Alexandria VA 22307


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