Working from home today so I slipped out before dawn to get in some birding. 
   
  At the North Beach beach right at Calverty/AA border
   
  100+ Red Wing Black Birds
  2 Swamp Sparrows
  30 Mallads
  1 Great Blue Heron
  5 Canada Geese
   
  4-5 ducks that flew overhead that whistled while they flew, they went furether out into the bay than the Mallard flock close in.
   
  Assorted little cheepers hiding from me in bushes.
   
  At Rose Haven Beach Park
   
  No Flycatcher today...did hear someone say NEEP! in woods at Holland Point just past the beach but as my husband objects to my using the binos while I am driving I refrained...besides he was trying to get the sunrise (he's the camera)
   
  100+ Lesser Scaups? A lot of them, just offshore, all sleeping and lfaoting around.
   
  150-200+ (at least) Buffleheads  - a huge raft of them, much further out than the alledged Lesser Scaups. There was also a boatload of hunters blasting them right and left... they weren't even flying away . It was the largest flock of anything I've ever seen, except maybe that huge flock of blackbirds at Blackwater.
   
  5-7 Cardinals - usually a lot of Cardinals there
  2-3 Titmice
  2-3 Chickadees
  5-6 Juncoes
  2    Downies
  1 Lonesome Goldfinch
  2 LBBs - sparrows, couldn't ID
  2 Mockingbirds
   
  HBNS: White Throated Sparrows
   
  the usual compliment of Starlings
   
  Back Home:
   
  Only interesting thing was Someone who makes a song/call I've not heard before - 
  bee-BEER (pause) bee-BEER (pause) bee-BEER.  not too loud, not fast, a little plaintive, and rather sweet sounding.  Was in the cedars somewhere I think, If anyone has an idea I would welcome...
   
  Otherwise, the usual suspects: Downies, one male very diligently excavating a hole in my white oak, Carolina Wrens (argumentative today), Chickdees, Titmice (who scolded me soundly for letting feeder get empty) Mockingbirds, HOSPs, Crows, Cardinals... Hiding were Juncoes, WTS and a catbird? Curiously, no Jays.
   
  Cat Reid
  Rose Haven MD
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