Last night Chris Murray and I drove all around the South River
watershed, down the back roads (on the Eastern side of the Pax River)
all the way down to the Jug Bay area listening for WHIPS and CHUCKS.
We drove a complete shut out!  Stopping at numerous wooded locations,
not a ONE was heard between 8:30 and 10pm.  We did manage to hear a
few migrants traveling up above us once we got down to Jug Bay area.

The better news?  We were delighted to see and hear 4 (possibly 5, but
one might have turned around and doubled back) COMMON NIGHTHAWKS
flying high above my the home here in West Annapolis around 8PM last
night.

This morning, after hearing about Chris' trip on Friday to Quiet
Waters Park (where he saw KENTUCKY and BAY BREASTED WARBLERS), I
decided to bird the mulching demonstration area back behind the Blue
Heron Pavilion.  It was a delightful morning.

Quiet Waters Park
Notes: I feel confident that I observed an ORANGE-CROWNED WARBLER.  It
had all of the field marks one would expect and I got numerous long
looks.  However, it was foraging in all around a Tulip Poplar which
doesn't necessarily seem like an OC.  I am not ruling out a drab
Tennessee, but from all indications, this bird had little to do with
the home of Country music.

Canada Goose     2
Mallard     2
Black Vulture     1
Turkey Vulture     1
Osprey     1
Mourning Dove     2
Red-bellied Woodpecker     2
Downy Woodpecker     1
Hairy Woodpecker     1
Eastern Wood-Pewee     3
Acadian Flycatcher     2
Red-eyed Vireo     5
Blue Jay     2
American Crow     1
Carolina Chickadee     5
Tufted Titmouse     4
White-breasted Nuthatch     1
Carolina Wren     9
House Wren     1
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher     1
Eastern Bluebird     1
Swainson's Thrush     4
Wood Thrush     3
American Robin     8
Gray Catbird     1
Northern Mockingbird     1
BAY-BREASTED WARBLER     1
Blackpoll Warbler     2
Black-and-white Warbler     1
American Redstart     6
Ovenbird     1
Scarlet Tanager     1
Eastern Towhee     1
Northern Cardinal     7
American Goldfinch     1

After returning home and reading Bill's report of two BLACK BILLED
CUCKOOS, I couldn't resist trying to see them.  They weren't out and
about, but as a superb consolation prize I saw my first male MOURNING
WARBLER in the brush near the duck blind on the Bobwhite Loop.

Greenbury Point

Northern Bobwhite     2
Turkey Vulture     3
Osprey     2
Cooper's Hawk     1
Rock Pigeon     1
Mourning Dove     3
Chimney Swift     4
Ruby-throated Hummingbird     2
Belted Kingfisher     1
Red-bellied Woodpecker     1
Downy Woodpecker     1
Red-eyed Vireo     1
Blue Jay     1
Fish Crow     3
Purple Martin     2
Tree Swallow     3
Barn Swallow     2
Carolina Chickadee     3
Tufted Titmouse     1
Carolina Wren     3
Eastern Bluebird     1
American Robin     2
Gray Catbird     1
Northern Mockingbird     5
Brown Thrasher     1
Cedar Waxwing     3
American Redstart     3
MOURNING WARBLER     1
Common Yellowthroat     2
Yellow-breasted Chat     2
Field Sparrow     3
Northern Cardinal     4
Indigo Bunting     3
Red-winged Blackbird     5
House Finch     4
American Goldfinch     3
House Sparrow     1

These reports were generated automatically by eBird v2(http://ebird.org)

Good Birding,

Dan Haas
West Annapolis, MD