Folks

Yesterday I got out for about an hour.  I took a short walk around the abandoned sewerage treatment plant in Bryans Road (name of town), Charles County.  On my walk I flushed a female Nashville Warbler (year bird).  Along the way I also had singing Black & White, Parula, Ovenbird, and Louisiana Waterthrush.  Great-blue Heron, White-eyed Vireo and Indigo Bunting were the only other birds of note.  Things seem to be slow for non-nesting neotropical migrants.

This morning around the house, Gwen and I had a pretty good Thrush flight.  By call, the flight included Swainson's, Veery, and Gray-checked Thrush in order of the most to least animals heard.  One Gray-checked and several Veery came to rest around the house and began to sing. The Gray-checked stopped, first but the Veerys sang a long time.  I wondered whether the length of singing had anything to do with the closeness of the birds to their respective breeding grounds.  Veery nest as close as DC and Gray-checked nest "like" way up north.  

Going to look for Chuck's tonight.  That may be #200 for the year in Charles if my spreadsheet is correct.  Yard bird list is at 109 for the year.

Still missing lots of common stuff like Bobolink, and Canada and Blue-winged Warbler.  Some of these may have got by already and will be fall target birds.  The goal is still 250, but I wonder with this migration.

Regards

George