Hi All. I met up with Nicole Marquess and a very nice couple from Colora this morning at the first field on the trail out to the light house. As soon as I got out of my truck and started on the first leg of the trail to meet them, I encountered a nice pocket of birds. As Joel Martin mentioned in his part of the world on a previous posting, the Empids were everywhere and fun to study. Also I can't even describe what it is like at some points on the path when there is just a wall of birds moving along the tree line. There is always something in view hawking and flittering. Amazing, it really is. If you make plans to come up here. Try to time it so it is after a Cold front. Even if you can't time it like that, it is still great!
Well, here it goes. Highlights;
Turkey Vulture 10
Black Vulture ,on the way in perched before the Parking Lot.
Osprey 4
Bald Eagle 3
Sharp-shined Hawk 2
Merlin 1
Ring-billed Gull 8
Greater Black-backed Gull
Forster's Terns 3
Yellow-billed Cuckoo 2
Ruby-throated Hummingbird 2
Red-bellied Woodpecker 8
Downy Wpkr 3
Hairy 1
N. Flicker 2
Pileated Woodpecker 2
E. Wood-Pewee 20+
Least Flycatcher 1
Empid. Species 10+
Great-crested Flycatcher 9
Eastern Kingbird 15
White-eyed Vireo 2
Yellow-throated Vireo 1
Warbling Vireo 1
Philadelphia Vireo 1
Red-eyed Vireo 30+
Red-breasted Nuthatch 5
House Wren 2
Carolina Wren 10+
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher 50+
American Robin 2
Cedar Waxwing 40
Northern Parula 2
Chestnut-sided Warbler 6
Magnolia Warbler 15
Cape May Warbler 1
Black-throated Blue Warbler 1
Black-th. Green Warbler 2
Palm Warbler ( Western Race) 1
Bay-breasted Warbler 1
Blackpoll Warbler 1
Blackburnian Warbler 3
Black and White Warbler 7
American Redstart 15+
Worm-eating Warbler 1
Common Yellowthroat 2
Wilson's Warbler ( Male) 1
Canada Warbler 2
Scarlet Tanager 5
Rose-breasted Grosbeak 4
Indigo Bunting 1
Bobolink 3
Baltimore Oriole 8
Orchard Oriole 1
Unidentified Warblers flying about, not sitting still, too high, etc. 30+
Sean McCandless
Elkton, MD