Sorry for this very late post from last weekend and Monday. We were in 
Calvert County and saw many of the same nice birds previously reported: late 
winter birds, such as BROWN CREEPERS, WINTER WRENS, YELLOW-BELLIED 
SAPSUCKERS, and RED-BREASTED NUTHATCHES, and early spring birds, such 
as our first PINE WARBLERS, CHIPPING SPARROW, BARN SWALLOW, and (state 
first) LAUGHING GULL in summer plumage (at Solomon's.) 

A good-sized flock of RUSTY BLACKBIRDS was a welcome find at Battle Creek 
Cypress Swamp on Sunday, and we enjoyed a vigorous AMERICAN WOODCOCK 
display on Saturday evening at the ACLT Port Republic trailhead. 

We spent the last two hours of daylight on Monday at Point Lookout, where 
there was little in the way of waterfowl, though we're always pleased with 
BROWN-HEADED NUTHATCHES, but what remains most memorable were the 
large numbers of DOUBLE-CRESTED CORMORANTS flying across the mouth of 
the Potomac, south around the lighthouse, and continuing northeast across 
the bay in the waning light. They were in long lines or V's, in groups of thirty 
or forty birds, and we saw many groups.

Leslie Starr & Joe Turner
Baltimore & Port Republic