Hello All,
	I have not made a post in some time, so I will give an update before moving on to the big news.  I spent little time birding in June and July, but have tried to make a better effort in August to catch some post-breeding wanderers and the beginnings of migration.

8/5 - a very humid morning.  The post-breeding wanderer was a flyover Great Egret and the lone migrant was a male Black & White Warbler.  Beyond that there was a Great Horned Owl, a Black Vulture, 2 Kestrel, 3 Wild Turkey, fledgling Pine Warblers, 3 Vesper and 1 Grasshopper Sparrow.  A White-eyed Vireo spent the summer this year.  This after no better than an X over 5 years of atlasing.  In the weekly matchup of Blue Grosbeak vs. Indigo Bunting, the buntings won 15-13.  46 species total.

8/12 - a cool morning but it didn't really have that chill in the air of a good cold front.  And not expecting much, I didn't find many migrants.  However, the locals, with numerous immature birds, are beginning to form into mixed feeding flocks.  The migrants amounted to a Yellow Warbler and another Black & White.  Bank Swallows finally made their annual late summer appearance as they are not breeders nearby.  Other birds included a Green Heron, an immature female Cooper's Hawk, 2 juvenile Towhees, 1 Vesper Sp.  BLGR 11, INBU 10, but 13 Cardinals trumped them both.  41 species.

8/18 - A few more migrants in evidence with a House Wren, 3 Great Crested Fly, a Yellow Warbler, 2 Redstarts, 5 Orchard Orioles (unusually scarce here over the summer), 2 Baltimore Orioles and flyover Bobolinks.  Grosbeaks eke out another win 12-11 (Cardinals 8).  Orioles 7, Rangers 30.  42 species total.

And now for the BIG NEWS.  The other interesting bird of the day was a drab little vireo with no field marks whatsoever save a pale supercilium between a pale gray topside and a blah off-white underside.  This unassuming Warbling Vireo was the first one to ever grace Oak Grove with its presence (at least that I was there to see) and became bird #200 on the local all-time list.  It was not quite the eureka moment of the milestone bird that I hoped for because I had to take notes, do some research to make sure it was not an extremely drab Philly Vireo.  Nor had it really been on my radar as a possibility, though it probably should have been as I had a drab vireo that got away a few fall ago.  Btw, Bob, this one was in MD.

8/19 - similar results to the day before with 1 Phoebe (good August bird here), 2 Pewee, 1 BG Gnatcatcher, 2 Redstart, 7 Orchard Oriole, 2 Baltimores.  BLGR 17, INBU 16.  The buntings must need bullpen help.  40 species total.

Good Birding,
Glen Lovelace III
Seaford, DE