Hi Everyone,

I am enjoying Spring Break on the Eastern Shore and getting some birding
in while here.  On my way to the Pocomoke I saw a flock of Great Blue
Herons flying in v-formation over Ocean Pines. It was cool to see nine
herons flying together.  I had never observed this in GBHE's before. 
Could they have been migrating north in formation or do they travel
locally like that from a heronry?  Living and working near the TNC
Heronry in Nanjemoy, I have never observed this behavior before.

Yesterday while scouting the Pocomoke River for the Trip I will be
leading on the Delmarva Birding Weekend I heard my first hooded Warbler
of the year.  It was singing along Porters Crossing Road where it crosses
the Pocomoke near Snow Hill.   A Wild Turkey was also clucking near by in
the flooded forest.

I really enjoy birding with 5th grade students at work, but is really
nice to get out and really bird with out their attention and distraction
limitations.  You can really see and hear so much more.

After leaving the Snow Hill Area,  Jim Rapp introduced me to The Nature
Conservancy Property on Mt. Olive Road.  There we found singing Northern
Waterthrush and Eastern Phoebe.

Both places were great birding habitats.

If you haven't already signed up for trips on the Delmarva Birding
Weekend from April 22 to 24 don't wait any longer.  I just found out the
many of the trips are full.
However they just added a new trip.  It is a Saturday Evening Canoe trip
on a tidal marsh to see the"change of the shift" from day to night birds.
 It ought to be an exciting trip.

Naturally,
Mike Callahan
Nanjemoy, Charles County, MD