Hi all, 

Patty Craig, Anne Bishop, Jim Boxwell and I birded southern St. Mary's Co.
from about Hermanville, to Point Lookout. We logged over 102 miles by car,
and bit over four miles by foot. 

In spite of the early terrible weather, we logged 90 (of 118) species by
8:30am. The weather cleared by midday- here are a few highlights:

Cornfield Harbor Rd.:
two GREAT-HORNED OWLS
VIRGINIA RAIL
500+ BOBOLINKS in the rye fields

Private Land off Cornfield Harbor:
WILLET
BLACK-BELLIED PLOVER
SEMIPALMATED PLOVERS
ORCHARD and BALTIMORE ORIOLES galore
-1 baby Groundhog. The owner's Jack Russel Terrier munched on it as we left

Elms:
Lots of LEAST and SPOTTED SANDPIPERS

Pt. Lookout:
many BROWN-HEADED NUTHATCHES
GLOSSY IBIS (two-ship fly-by)
GRAY-CHEEKED THRUSH
VEERY
two ROSE-BREASTED GROSBEAK

I've posted a few pictures (www.flickr.com/photos/mattyfioner) and the full
list below. 

Good birding!
Matt Tillett
Linthicum, MD

Location:    Southern St. Mary's County
Observation date:    5/10/08
Notes:   2008 May Count, Southern St Mary's County with Patty Craig, Anne
Bishop and Jim Boxwell
Number of species:    118

Canada Goose    54
Mute Swan    6
Red-breasted Merganser    3
Common Loon    3
Great Blue Heron    46
Snowy Egret    1
Cattle Egret    38
Green Heron    1
Glossy Ibis    2
Black Vulture    12
Turkey Vulture    14
Osprey    26
Bald Eagle    9
Northern Harrier    1
Red-shouldered Hawk    1
Red-tailed Hawk    1
American Kestrel    1
Clapper Rail    6
Virginia Rail    2
Black-bellied Plover    1
Semipalmated Plover    6
Killdeer    7
Spotted Sandpiper    9
Solitary Sandpiper    1
Greater Yellowlegs    3
Willet    1
Lesser Yellowlegs    1
Sanderling    1
Semipalmated Sandpiper    22
Least Sandpiper    14
Short-billed Dowitcher    1
Laughing Gull    38
Ring-billed Gull    3
Herring Gull    55
Great Black-backed Gull    3
Caspian Tern    1
Forster's Tern    7
Royal Tern    5
Mourning Dove    14
Great Horned Owl    2
Barred Owl    4
Chimney Swift    6
Ruby-throated Hummingbird    2
Belted Kingfisher    1
Red-bellied Woodpecker    6
Downy Woodpecker    2
Hairy Woodpecker    1
Northern Flicker (Yellow-shafted)    3
Acadian Flycatcher    1
Eastern Phoebe    1
Great Crested Flycatcher    7
Eastern Kingbird    13
White-eyed Vireo    6
Red-eyed Vireo    13
Blue Jay    16
American Crow    65
Fish Crow    3
Horned Lark    3
Purple Martin    1
Tree Swallow    7
Barn Swallow    74
Carolina Chickadee    8
White-breasted Nuthatch    1
Brown-headed Nuthatch    15
Carolina Wren    10
House Wren    3
Marsh Wren    3
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher    3
Eastern Bluebird    28
Veery    1
Gray-cheeked Thrush    1
Wood Thrush    1
American Robin    15
Gray Catbird    10
Northern Mockingbird    26
Brown Thrasher    9
European Starling    36
Cedar Waxwing    44
Northern Parula    16
Yellow Warbler    1
Black-throated Blue Warbler    1
Yellow-rumped Warbler (Myrtle)    5
Pine Warbler    18
Prairie Warbler    9
Blackpoll Warbler    1
Black-and-white Warbler    1
American Redstart    1
Worm-eating Warbler    1
Ovenbird    10
Louisiana Waterthrush    1
Common Yellowthroat    15
Yellow-breasted Chat    3
Summer Tanager    1
Scarlet Tanager    3
Eastern Towhee    4
Chipping Sparrow    20
Field Sparrow    2
Savannah Sparrow    14
Grasshopper Sparrow    13
Saltmarsh Sharp-tailed Sparrow    2
Seaside Sparrow    3
Song Sparrow    2
Swamp Sparrow    1
White-throated Sparrow    1
Northern Cardinal    80
Rose-breasted Grosbeak    2
Blue Grosbeak    8
Indigo Bunting    19
Bobolink    520
Red-winged Blackbird    350
Eastern Meadowlark    8
Common Grackle    75
Brown-headed Cowbird    3
Orchard Oriole    21
Baltimore Oriole    9
House Finch    11
American Goldfinch    17
House Sparrow    10