I came back early due to an injured foot. Strained Achilles. Ouch. Anyway as Parke had mentioned for me, much fall migration was underway. Some happening so fast I am thinking about Turkey Point already.
Terns were in a non-stop pattern of heading South. Mainly Commons and Least. As were Sanderlings, Willets, Whimbril, 4 Red Knots, Brown Pelicans were everywhere and they too were heading South. The Piping Plovers were back and fourth between the Ocean and the dunes.
I had counted up to 9 different Lesser Black-backed Gulls on the beach and that was only the first 5 miles on the ORV zone. The lessers were in all plumages all sub adult and or in the Juvenile range.

I first spotted the Jaeger chasing Laughing Gulls on the Beach about a half a mile North. I was in the water at the time and ran up to my truck to grab my camera while trying not to loose sight of it. I quickly got set up, I looked at it with my scope first, it had headed out to sea and then started heading South. It was very hazy yesterday, and the bird was off shore a bit.   Some how I did manage to get a few poor, but I believe Identifiable photographs. I did Identify it as being a Adult Parasitic Jaeger by many things. The over all color. A warm brown above and out on the wings, with a yellow buff underneath the throat. A white buff extending from the dark brown necklace to the vent and flank area under the bird. The white flashes in the wing were on both top and bottom sides. I also noticed that the head size compared to the body was very tiny.
If anyone would like to view some of the photos please e-mail me off line.

Sean McCandless
Cecil Bird Club President
Elkton, MD