No unusual birds to report, but it was absolutely beautiful out this morning.  I 
did not see our house during daylight all week, and hoped to find some new 
birds that arrived during the week.  Alas, the find of the morning was the first 
brown creeper of the season.  I also saw a large (~25-30) flock of warblers, 
that were very busy (and vocal!) feeding, but all I found were myrtles.  I think 
that's all there was, but there were so many I could have overlooked one or 
two other birds.  It has been a very slow fall here for warblers, I saw only 
about half the species here that I saw last year, and numbers of individuals 
was also down.  Unlike this spring, which was quite good.  I think it's winding 
down for warblers now.

No thrushes here other than bluebirds and robins, which were both in good 
numbers.  I also saw a group of 3 red-shouldered hawks together.  That's a 
bit odd, I usually only see them in singles or pairs.  At the river, the wind 
yesterday had blown the tide way out, which made some great mudbars, but 
all I saw was a pair of killdeer and a pied-billed grebe.  and of course the 
hundreds (thousands?) of grackles and red-wing blackbirds that seem to be 
everywhere in the vegetation.

Cheers-
Jeff Shenot
Croom MD