A grand group of birders turned out on this warm morning to check on the
birds on Tilghman Island.  Top bird of the day, seen only by the seven
die-hards of the group, was a Clapper Rail in the tall grasses beside Knapps
Narrows.   On a sand bar near by we also saw three Semipalmated Plovers and
eight Semipalmated Sandpipers.
 
    Back down near Black Walnut Point parking lot the highlights included:
    Blue-gray Gnatcatchers
    Cedar Waxwings
    A fine parade of migrating Swallows (Barn, Tree, Bank, and Purple
Martins)
    Hummingbirds
    Chimney Swifts
    The only warblers were Pine Warblers
    Four Tern Species (Caspian, Royal, Forster's and Common)
    Four Gull Species    (Laughing, Herring, Ring-billed and Greater
Black-backed)
    Dozens of Osprey and hundreds of DC Cormorants on the poles of the pound
nets
    Bald Eagles
     Fourteen Great Blue Herons in the pond of a local resident
    Green Heron - fishing with success - in a shallow stream
    Carolina Chickadees
    And one silent small Empidonax Flycatcher
 
Les Roslund
Talbot County
Easton MD 21601
 

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