Hi Folks!

Ed Boyd & I arrived at Pt.Lookout this morning at about  7:30.  Within 5
minutes of our arrival Ed spotted 3 large mostly white  birds heading up the
Potomac .... 3 AMERICAN WHITE PELICANS!  While I was  scoping those I heard a sound
and turned..as did Ed....and we both yelled COMMON  REDPOLLS!!!    as a flock
of 9 headed south past the  lighthouse and   onwards towards Virginia.
During the next hour  and a half at the point we picked up 4 Pine Siskins, 2
Red-bellied Woodpeckers,  a Red-headed Woodpecker and [amazing to me] a Brown-headed
Nuthatch that seemed  to want to join the woodpeckers for the hop south
across the mouth of the  Potomac but like the Blue Jays turned back in the face of
a SW wind.  The  Great Cormorants were on their usual perch on the channel
marked south of the  point.  There was a small but steady stream of migrating
Myrtle Warblers,  most returning back to the north rather than head into the
wind.  Among  these high up were two other warblers that by chip not and plumage
appeared to  be Yellow Warblers.

Birding in the picnic area and by Fort Lincoln was very slow.  In the  fields
off of Cornfield Harbor Road we found a flock of 8 Chipping Sparrows and
near by an immature White-crowned and 2 Lincoln's Sparrows.

After that it was time for crab cakes and a few drafts at the Seabreeze
while Shrimpy snoozed on one of the pilings.

All in all, a nice day.

Good Birding!

Jim

Jim Stasz
North Beach MD