The Marlboro Flaming County Seaters made a respectable showing yesterday 
with a total of 9 observers and 63 species from dawn to dusk.  A remarkable 
number of Mrytle Warblers were passing through, it was a good day for 
raptors, and some nice migrants made appearances as well.  The total list was:

Double Crested Cormorant
Great Blue Heron
Great Egret
Trumpeter Swan
Canada Goose
Mallard
Wood Duck
Bald Eagle
Turkey Vulture
Black Vulture
Sharp-shinned Hawk
Cooper's Hawk
Red-shouldered Hawk
Red-tailed Hawk
Osprey
American Kestrel
Great Black-backed Gull
Herring Gull
Laughing Gull
Ring-billed Gull
Mourning Dove
Rock Pigeon
Barred Owl (vocalized several times, late afternoon)
Belted Kingfisher
Pileated Woodpecker
Northern Flicker
Red-bellied Woodpecker
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
Downy Woodpecker
White-breasted Nuthatch
Carolina Chicadee
Tufted Titmouse
Eastern Phoebe
Eastern Wood-Pewee
Least Flycatcher
Red-eyed Vireo
Common Yellowthroat
Yellow-rumped (Mrytle) Warblers
Black and White Warbler
Black-throated Blue Warbler
Northern Parula
Blue Jay
American Crow
Fish Crow
Tree Swallow
Chimney Swift
Carolina Wren
Golden-crowned Kinglet
Ruby-crowned Kinglet
Eastern Bluebird
American Robin
Northern Mockingbird
Gray Catbird
European Starling
Northern Cardinal
House Finch
American Goldfinch
Swamp Sparrow
Song Sparrow
House Sparrow
Common Grackle
Red-winged Blackbird
Brown-headed Cowbird

The Flaming County Seaters were stationed (seated) at the observation 
platform at the rear of the pond.  It worked out well for flyovers gulls, 
cormorants, and waterfowl, as well as for songbirds in the woods at the rear 
of the pond.  Highlights for me were the adult male Black-throated Blue 
Warbler, the Least Flycatcher (which three of us got fairly good views of), the 
flyover raptors, early sapsucker, and the large number of Mrytle Warblers.  In 
the PM, we also had a flock of 370+ Laughing, Ring-billed and Herring Gulls on 
the pond.  

This morning (October 9), approximately 12 hours after the close of the big 
sit, I had three birds that we didn't have yesterday:  White-throated Sparrow, 
Eastern Towhee, and female Lesser Scaup.

Fred Shaffer
Patuxent MOS