Simply one of the best birdwatching days I’ve ever had, I was birding around 
Jug Bay (plus a short trip to the Brown Station landfill for a trash run) for the 
May Count.  110 species in 9.5 hours.

Highlights were my first MISSISSIPPI KITE!!; plus a Sora; 7 shorebird species; 
Horned Lark singing at the airfield at Selby's Landing; 18 warblers including a 
brilliant Cape May (probably the same male I saw and reported on Thursday; it 
was singing in same location at PRP headquarters at Jackson Landing); and 
Bobolinks singing at Mt Calvert.  Numbers for each will be provided to Prince 
Georges County compiler Fred Fallon after I tally all my little sheets up!

The MIKI was seen at 1:35 pm.  I saw it soring about 300 yards from me, and 
my immediate thought was KITE!!  But when I got it in my bins, I was not sure 
it wasn’t a male harrier at first, and to my amazement and great fortune, it 
veered and came directly toward me.  When it came directly over my head I 
almost fell over with excitement when I positively identified it.  It came on a 
flight path directly down the Chesapeake Beach Rail (defunct) ROW, drifting 
SE toward me at Mt. Calvert Rd, and when it passed over Mt. Calvert Rd it 
began to circle and caught a thermal up.  A crude estimate would be about 
1250-1500 feet elevation.  Then it began to tuck and seemed to be on a 
stoop, but when it got down to around 200 feet it untucked and pulled up, 
then resumed into a drift.  This time it drifted back NNE back toward where it 
came from, approximately in the direction of Upper Marlboro.  I quickly lost 
sight of it when it went over some tree tops out of my view.  Seems like it 
was simply saying hello!; I had the birdwatching equivalent of winning the 
lottery!

Loon sp. (fly-by; probably Common)
Double-crested Cormorant
Great Blue Heron
Green Heron
Black Vulture
Turkey Vulture
Canada Goose
Wood Duck
Mallard
Osprey
MISSISSIPPI KITE
Bald Eagle
Northern Harrier
Cooper's Hawk
Red-shouldered Hawk
Red-tailed Hawk
Wild Turkey
Sora
Killdeer
Greater Yellowlegs
Lesser Yellowlegs
Solitary Sandpiper
Spotted Sandpiper
Semipalmated Sandpiper
Least Sandpiper
Laughing Gull
Ring-billed Gull
Herring Gull
Forster's Tern
Mourning Dove
Barn Owl
Barred Owl
Chimney Swift
Ruby-throated Hummingbird
Belted Kingfisher
Red-headed Woodpecker
Red-bellied Woodpecker
Downy Woodpecker
Hairy Woodpecker
Northern Flicker
Pileated Woodpecker
Eastern Wood-Pewee
Acadian Flycatcher
Eastern Phoebe
Great-crested Flycatcher
Eastern Kingbird
White-eyed Vireo
Yellow-throated Vireo
Red-eyed Vireo
Blue Jay
American Crow
Fish Crow
Horned Lark
Purple Martin
Tree Swallow
Bank Swallow
Barn Swallow
Carolina Chickadee
Tufted Titmouse
White-breasted Nuthatch
Carolina Wren
Marsh Wren
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
Eastern Bluebird
Wood Thrush
American Robin
Gray Catbird
Northern Mockingbird
Brown Thrasher
European Starling
Cedar Waxwing
Northern Parula
Yellow Warbler
Cape May Warbler
Black-throated Blue Warbler
Yellow-rumped Warbler
Yellow-throated Warbler
Pine Warbler
Prairie Warbler
Blackpoll Warbler
Black-and-white Warbler
American Redstart
Prothonotary Warbler
Ovenbird
Northern Waterthrush
Louisiana Waterthrush
Common Yellowthroat
Hooded Warbler
Yellow-breasted Chat
Summer Tanager
Scarlet Tanager
Eastern Towhee
Chipping Sparrow
Field Sparrow
Grasshopper Sparrow
Song Sparrow
White-throated Sparrow
Northern Cardinal
Rose-breasted Grosbeak
Blue Grosbeak
Indigo Bunting
Bobolink
Red-winged Blackbird
Common Grackle
Brown-headed Cowbird
Orchard Oriole
Baltimore Oriole
House Finch
American Goldfinch
House Sparrow

Cheers!
Jeff Shenot
Croom MD