Hi All,
My wife and I enjoyed a cold but lovely moonlit night camping on
Assateague Island this Saturday night. We arrived late Saturday afternoon
after an unsuccessful attempt for the Eared Grebe in Easton on the way
east. The most exciting bird at the landfill ponds was a juvenile Common
Moorhen. This morning on Assateague was very birdy, with Hermit Thrushes
hopping around at nearly every camp-site in the National Park, large
flocks of Dark-eyed Juncos, White-throated Sparrows, Yellow-rumped
Warblers and Kinglets. The best birds of the day were as follows:

Red-throated Loon: 4 flying S.
Brown Pelican: 13
Northern Gannet: 5
Bufflehead: 40
Surf Scoter: 200
Northern Harrier: 1
Sharp-shinned Hawk: 2 (of which one successfully caught a Hermit Thrush
right in front of the car!)
Merlin: 1 female
Black-bellied plover: 2
American Golden Plover: 1
Killdeer: 2
Greater Yellowleg: 3
Sanderling: 1
Wilson's Snipe: 1
American Woodcock: 1
Royal Tern: 3
Eastern Phoebe: 3
House Wren: 1
Ruby-Crowned Kinglet: 4
Golden-crowned Kinglet: 20+ (VERY tame)
Brown Creeper: 1
Hermit Thrush: 150-200
Cedar Waxwing: 30+
Brown Thrasher: 4
Gray Catbird: 3
Northern Mockingbird: 2
Yellow-rumped Warbler: 400+
Eastern Palm Warbler: 3+
Eastern Towhee: 2
White-crowned Sparrow: 1 juvenile
Swamp Sparrow: 1
Chipping Sparrow: 20+
Fox Sparrow: 1
Savannah Sparrow: 3+
Snow Bunting: 2 ind. flew N.
Eastern Meadowlark: 1

Pictures from today will be posted on my website tomorrow
(http://www.flickr.com/photos/37699157@N00/)

Good birding,
Frode Jacobsen