The Cecil Bird Club had a field trip to Turkey Point today. It started off real slow. So slow that I was ready to start handing out refunds, and just think. No one paid to come. Anyway, it did pick up a tad, and by the time we made it out to the light house it was fantastic. We really hit a great coopertive group of Warblers. One note I thought was interesting. We had 1 Ruby-crowned Kinglet, and 1 Yellow-rumped Warbler. I thought that was kind of early. Here are our highlights.
Double-crested Cormorant-6
Canada Geese-10
Laughing Gull-10
Ringed-billed Gull-25
Herring Gull-6
Greater Black-backed Gull-3
Northern Harrier
Sharp-shined Hawk
Coopers Hawk
American Kestral
Merlin
Red-tailed Hawk
Bald Eagle
Turkey Vulture- 8
Screech Owl-5
Mourning Dove-2
Yellow-billed Cuckoo-3
Chimney Swift-75+
Barn Swallow-1
Tree Swallow-3
Ruby-th Hummingbird-7
Pileated Woodpecker-2
Red-bellied Woodpecker-10
Northern Flicker-14
Downey Woodpecker-6
Hairy Woodpecker-1
Olive-sided Flycatcher-1 reported later. Not seen by me.
Eastern Wood Pewee-4
Empids- 5
Eastern Phoebe-1
Great-crested Flycatcher-7
Blue Jay- 250
American Crow-15
Carolina Chickadee-8
Tufted Titmouse-10
White-breasted Nuthatch-10
House Wren-3
Carolina Wren-12
Ruby-crowned Kinglet-1
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher-13
Eastern Bluebird-2
Veery-3
Swainsons Thrush-2
Wood Thrush-6
Unidentified Thrushes-5
American Robin-12
Gray Catbird-9
Brown Thrasher-2
Cedar Waxwing-100+
White-eyed Vireo-1
Red-eyed Vireo-25
Tennessee Warbler-2
Nashville Warbler-2
Northern Parula Warbler-6
Yellow Warbler-1
Chestnut-sided Warbler-10
Magnolia Warbler- 12
Cape May Warbler-1
Black-th Blue Warbler-3
Yellow-rumped Warbler-1
Black-th Green Warbler-7
Palm Warbler-2 eastern race
Blackpoll-2
Black and White-5
American Redstart-4
Ovenbird-5
Common Yellowthroat-3
Scarlet Tanager-2
Northern Cardinal-25
Rose-breasted Grosbeak-9
Indigo Bunting-3
Bobolink-2
Red-winged Blackbird-20
Common Grackle-14
Brown-headed Cowbird 50
Baltimore Oriole-2
American Goldfinch-4
I went out on the North East River later on in the day. I will post a report on that later.
Sean McCandless
Elkton, MD