Anne DeMott and I had the pleasure of counting at Turkey Point today.
Although we had about an hour rain delay, we still were able to count
for about 4 hours this morning. We had lots of misses--usually there is a lot
more variety among warblers, and there were NO thrushes at all in the park,
at least, not that we saw.

The overcast sky made it hard to ID some of the birds, but here's our
list of 47 species, 277 individuals:

Double-crested Cormorant 1
Great Blue Heron 2
Turkey Vulture 15
Osprey 2
Bald Eagle 4
Cooper's Hawk 1
Buteo 1 (Red-Tail or Red-Shoulder being mobbed by crows, only seen 
briefly through the trees)
Ring-billed Gull 1
Mourning Dove 2
Chimney Swift 5
Red-bellied Woodpecker 3
Pileated Woodpecker 1
Great-crested Flycatcher 4
Eastern Kingbird 1 (a very beautiful one with a deep blue highlights 
on its back, tail and wings)
Red-eyed Vireo 5
American Crow 8
Crow sp. 1
Tree Swallow 40
Barn Swallow 6
Swallow spp. 10 (browner than Tree Swallows but not seen well enough to ID)
Carolina Chickadee 4
Tufted Titmouse 12
White-breasted Nuthatch 2
Carolina Wren 8
House Wren 4
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher 4
Eastern Bluebird 3
American Robin 6
Gray Catbird 4
Northern Mockingbird 2
European Starling 2
Northern Parula 5
Black-throated Blue Warbler 4
Yellow-rumped Warbler 3
American Redstart 10
Worm-eating Warbler 1
Common Yellowthroat 1
Scarlet Tanager 1
Chipping Sparrow 1
White-throated Sparrow 1? (heard only; we recorded a partial call and 
need confirmation)
Northern Cardinal 26
Indigo Bunting 5
Red-winged Blackbird 1
Common Grackle 27
Brown-headed Cowbird 16
Orchard Oriole 4
Baltimore Oriole 5
American Goldfinch 2

Thank you, Anne!

--Pat

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