Greetings,
-Spent a FOGGY hour or two sweating it out at Turkey Point, south of North
East in Cecil County, this morning. Migration is definitely happening but as one
may expect in the sultry weather not a whole lot was happening today. I did
manage to conjure-up the following migrants (in no particular order).
Purple Martin (6)
Least Flycatcher (1)
empid sp. (2)
Easter Wood-pewee (4)
Red-eyed Vireo (30+)
White-eyed Vireo (1)
*YELLOW-THROATED VIREO (1)
*CANADA WARBLER (1M)
Redstart (2F)
Baltimore Oriole (1F)
Gray Catbird (1)
*Red-breasted Nuthatch (1 heard only)
Other Notables included Hairy Woodpecker which for me is a hard bird for some
reason.
BTW- all birds were seen/heard within fifty feet of the parking lot. I did walk
to the first field but it was quiet and increasingly foggy. There is a lot of food
(berries, persimmon, paw-paw, insects) down there so my guess is that
migration should be pretty good under the right weather conditions. Another
note, there seem to be more tent caterpillars (gypsy moths?) than I have ever
seen down there...
Sweaty birding,
Chris Starling
North East, MD |