In a message dated 8/24/2006 9:34:09 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,  
 writes:

Other  birds included two Eastern 
Kingbirds, several Blue-gray Gnatcatchers, two  Hermit Thrushes and a 
Wood Thrush.


Jessica,
 
 
You mention that you saw 2 Hermit Thrushes at Black Hill yesterday. How  sure 
of this sighting are you? Hermit Thrushes don't usually show up here in  
Montgomery County until late September. Could they have been Veeries, which  breed 
here locally in mature deciduous stream valleys,
 
How did you determine them to be Hermit Thrushes?
 
Rick Sussman
Ashton, MD