Sorry for the delayed post.  I went right to sleep last night and had lots of research to do this morning.  
 
Hans Holbrook and I birded Friday afternoon down to Easton and on Saturday we birded to OC with Jim Brighton and Dave Powell.  I will detail those (very few) sightings in another post.  
 
Jim Stasz told me a few weeks ago he put a Hungarian curse on our weather for the Big Sit since he was going to be in California.  At first I didn't believe him, but Saturday was a bit frightening.  He must have had a little last minute compassion because it didn't rain a drop during our Sit.  However, the damage was done with migration of which we had very little.  
 
By 3am, the wind had shifted to the NW and I theorized that there would be minimal nocturnal migration and no morning flight, but diurnal migration could be good.  The reality was the nocturnal migration was minimal, there was a bit of a morning flight, and the diurnal migration was nonexistant.  Hans, Jim, and I arrived at the circle about 5am and found Mark Hoffman standing in the circle.  Mark had been there since 4:20am with no birds.  The first bird we added was a Veery, which is much less likely than Swainson's or Gray-cheek.  We were able to add a few Swainson's, a Rose-breasted Grosbeak, and Cape May Warbler before dawn broke.  Also right before dawn an American Woodcock flew right next to circle and landed putting on a great show in the flashlight.  
 
Highlights for the day were: Glossy Ibis, 3 great looks at Peregrines, a flock of 12 Western Willets, 2 Sandwich Terns sitting on the pilings off the point, record late Warbling Vireo (rare in Worcester to begin with), and 10 species of warbler (Nashville, Cape May, Black-throated Blue, Myrtle, Black-throated Green, Pine, Prairie, Western Palm, Blackpoll, Redstart). 
 
Misses:  We missed a lot this year.  Several usually conspicuous members of the morning flight were absent: any Woodpecker (especially Flicker), American Robin, Cedar Waxwing, Baltimore Oriole, Red-eyed Vireo, Red-breasted Nuthatch, Kinglets, Parula, Black-and-white Warbler.  Also, we could not coax any of the campground birds to come visit us at the point so are listed lacked: Mockingbird, Thrasher, Towhee, Field Sparrow, Yellowthroat, and countless others.  
 
Nonetheless, we beat our first year's total with 72 species and it was a lot of fun hanging out with everyone.  Big Sitters for the day were: Mark Hoffman, Hans Holbrook, Jim Brighton, Stan Arnold, Dave Powell, Kevin Graff, Duvall Sollers, Norm Saunders, and Bill Ellis.  A full list follows: 
 
Common Loon
Brown Pelican
Double-crested Cormorant
Great Egret
Snowy Egret
Little Blue Heron
Tricolored Heron
Glossy Ibis
Turkey Vulture
Canada Goose
American Wigeon
American Black Duck
Mallard
Blue-winged Teal
Northern Pintail
Surf Scoter
Osprey
Bald Eagle
Northern Harrier
Sharp-shinned Hawk
Red-tailed Hawk
Peregrine Falcon
Black-bellied Plover
Semipalmated Plover
Killdeer
Greater Yellowlegs
Lesser Yellowlegs
Western Willet
Ruddy Turnstone
Pectoral Sandpiper
Dunlin
American Woodcock
Laughing Gull
Ring-billed Gull
Herring Gull
Great Black-backed Gull
Caspian Tern
Royal Tern
Sandwich Tern
Forster's Tern
Mourning Dove
Yellow-billed Cuckoo
Belted Kingfisher
Warbling Vireo
crow sp.
Tree Swallow
Barn Swallow
Carolina Wren
House Wren
Veery
Swainson's Thrush
Gray Catbird
European Starling
Nashville Warbler
Cape May Warbler
Black-throated Blue Warbler
Myrtle Warbler
Black-throated Green Warbler
Pine Warbler
Prairie Warbler
Western Palm Warbler
Blackpoll Warbler
American Redstart
Song Sparrow
Northern Cardinal
Rose-breasted Grosbeak
Indigo Bunting
Bobolink
Red-winged Blackbird
Boat-tailed Grackle
House Finch
American Goldfinch
 
 
Matt Hafner
Bel Air, MD