Folks

I spent about two hours this AM looking for migrants in Charles County in the old sewage treatment plant near Bryans Road, MD.  Pickings were very slim.  Maybe they have not been disbursed by the military yet, or the bombing was too heavy.  

I was able to locate one Black-throated Green Warbler, and one Warbling Vireo - both August birds for the county month list.  

Other birds of note were:

5 Great Egrets
1 Osprey
3 Pileated Woodpeckers
1 Red-bellied Woodpecker
1 Downy Woodpecker
1 Acadian Flycatcher
1 ratty looking (molting) unidentified empid.  Lots of yellow on the underside, but the throat was white.  Maybe another Acadian/Trails type.  Not all non-vocalizing, fall empids can be identified to species.  
1 White-eyed Vireo
~10 Red-eyed Vireo
2 Tree Swallow
2 Wood Thrush (molting)
3 Catbirds
5 Northern Parula Warblers
5 Chimney Swifts overhead, and
Good numbers of Carolina Wrens, chickadee, titmice, and White-breasted Nuthatch along the way.

One young male Cooper's Hawk is hunting around the house.  Been here for the last two days and the Mourning Dove are not happy.

Good bombing - birding - excuse me!

George