Nothing quite so exciting at the Point today but there were a few
migrants before and after the 10 a.m. drizzle. Osprey, Sharp-shinned,
and a couple of unidentifiable buteos thermaling high over the east
side of the Point. One of the resident eagles flew directly overhead.

The Blue Jay spectacle continues--a flock of about 300 headed
east around 10:30, and by the time I left an hour later another 200 or so had
gathered. On the drive out, I saw them streaming in from halfway up Elk Neck.

Most entertaining were the Phoebes--at least a half dozen of them.
Two sat on the trail markers most of the morning, and at one point
they both went after the same bug. The collision was horribly
reminiscent of last night's Yankees' game. (Bummer, bummer, bummer.)

On my walk out, I saw Golden-Crowned Kinglet, a female Black-throated Blue
with almost no white patch on its wing, lots of woodpeckers: 
Pileated, Red-bellied,
Flicker, Hairy, and Downy, and TWO Yellow-bellied Sapsuckers, my first
of the season. Lots of Tree Swallows today, and a House Wren,
plus the usual mix.


--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