Anne Bishop, Patty Craig, Jim Boxwell and I had an awesome May Count in
Southern St. Mary's County on Saturday. I don't have the final tally of each
species, but we did get about 116 (I might have missed one or two in my
notes) different birds for the day . I "ticked off" 62 county birds...but I
only made about 10 of them mad.

Patty and I started at 4:30am, and got the SORA, CLAPPER and VIRGINIA RAILS.
We picked up Jim and Anne at about six, and after grabbing some coffee,
birded everything south of the Pax River NAS until 8:30pm. This is by no
means the official tally, but what I had in my notebook at the end of the day. 

It helps when you sing this to Johnny Cash's "I've Been Everywhere"
Deep breath...

COMMON LOON
Brown Pelican
DC Cormorant
Great Blue Heron
SNOWY EGRET
CATTLE EGRET
GREEN HERON
Mute Swan
Canada Goose
WOOD DUCK
Mallard
Black Vulture
Turkey Vulture
Osprey
BALD EAGLE
SHARP-SHINNED HAWK
COOPER'S HAWK
RT Hawk
AMERICAN KESTREL
WILD TURKEY
NORTHERN BOBWHITE
CLAPPER RAIL
VIRGINIA RAIL
SORA
BLACK-BELLIED PLOVER
Killdeer
GREATER YELLOWLEGS
LESSER YELLOWLEGS
SEMIPALMATED PLOVER
WILLET
SPOTTED SANDPIPER
LEAST SANDPIPER
SHORT-BILLED DOWITCHER
Laughing Gull
Ring-billed Gull
Herring Gull
Greater Black-backed Gull
ROYAL TERN
COMMON TERN 
FORSTER'S TERN
Ruby-throated Hummingbird
Rock Pigeon
Mourning Dove
YELLOW-BILLED CUCKOO
BLACK-BILLED CUCKOO
Chimney Swift
RED-HEADED WOODPECKER
Red-bellied Woodpecker
Downy Woodpecker
HAIRY WOODPECKER
N. (Yellow-shafted) Flicker
GREAT CRESTED FLYCATCHER
Easter Kingbird
Purple Martin
Tree Swallow
Barn Swallow
Blue Jay
Am. Crow
Fish Crow 
Carolina Chickadee 
Tufted Titmouse
BROWN-HEADED NUTHATCH
Carolina Wren
MARSH WREN
Blue-green Gnatcatcher
Eastern Bluebird
VEERY
WOOD THRUSH
American Robin
Gray Catbird (<so many it became a joke that Jim is probably still using)
N. Mockingbird
Brown Thrasher
Eu. Starling
WHITE-EYED VIREO
RED-EYED VIREO 
BLUE-WINGED WARBLER
NORTHERN PARULA
Yellow Warbler
Pine Warbler
PRAIRIE WARBLER
BLACKPOLL WARBLER
BLACK-AND-WHITE WARBLER
AMERICAN REDSTART
COMMON YELLOWTHROAT
OVENBIRD
LOUISIANA WATERTHRUSH
YELLOW-BREASTED CHAT
SUMMER TANAGER
SCARLET TANAGER
N. Cardinal
BLUE GROSBEAK
ROSE-BREATED GROSBEAK
INDIGO BUNTING
Eastern Towhee
Chipping Sparrow
Field Sparrow
SAVANNAH SPARROW 
GRASSHOPPER SPARROW
SALTMARSH SHARP-TAILED SPARROW 
SEASIDE SPARROW
Song Sparrow
SWAMP SPARROW
White-throated Sparrow
Red-winged Blackbird
EASTERN MEADOWLARK
BOBOLINK
RUSTY BLACKBIRD
BALTIMORE ORIOLE
ORCHARD ORIOLE
House Finch
American Goldfinch

oh...and some chickens.

Seacrest out,
Matt Tillett
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