I stole an hour from a busy today today and strolled the path at Turkey Point
only from the parking lot to the middle of the first meadow. At 4 p.m., I 
wasn't
expecting no birds but I was at least hoping to SEE a few. I did, with
difficulty, though I heard more than I saw. Darn little things were being 
very evasive today,
and the trees are full of these flat green things that blocked all visibility.

Anyway, what I actually saw:

Osprey
Cardinal
Tufted titmouse
Blue-gray gnatcatcher
Indigo bunting
Baltimore oriole (female)

What I also heard:

Black-throated blue warbler
Yellow warbler
Red-eyed vireo
White-eyed vireo
Carolina chickadee
Catbird
Carolina wren
Red-bellied woodpecker

Of course, I also heard lots of things I couldn't identify.

And just before I turned for home, I was startled by a very loud "kuk kuk 
kuk" call
from the woods on the west side of the meadow--yellow-billed cuckoo?


--Pat

Pat Valdata, Elkton, MD | 
"The natural function of the wing is to soar upwards
and carry that which is heavy up to the place where dwells the race of gods.
More than any other thing that pertains to the body
it partakes of the nature of the divine." --Plato