Danny Poet of the Caroline County Chapter of MOS attended the Talbot Bird
Club Walk on 8/17 and provided the report shown below.

Les Roslund
Talbot County
Easton MD 21601


-----Original Message-----
From: danny poet [mailto:[log in to unmask]] 
Sent: Monday, August 18, 2008 3:42 PM
To: 
Cc: Les Roslund
Subject: Talbot Bird Club Walk Tilghman Island 8- 17 OLIVE - SIDED
FLYCATCHER



 Hi all  The Sunday Morning  walk   8 -17  08  of the Talbot County Bird
Club  at Tilghman Island  led by Jan  Reese  and attended by 6  birders
found  a immature  Olive - Sided Flycatcher  at Black Walnut Point.  A great
bird and viewers had good looks at the  white rump patches, the  big-headed
look  and the short tail. The flycatcher was harassed by a female  Blue
Grosbeak to  force it from its favorite perch in the top of a sapling oak.  

Other bird  higlights: 

Common Terns 
Forsters Terns 
Royal Terns
Caspian  Terns
Great  Blue Herons 
Ospreys   (dozens) 
Bald  Eagle  2 adults  1 immatures
Cooper's Hawk 
Blue Grosbeak       several  including one  female in a bush near a male
Cardinal 
Cardinal (stunning views)
Barn Swallows   
Purple Martin 
R. T . Hummingbirds
Blue Jay  (rare for  here) 
Carolina Chickadee 
Tufted Titmouse   (Rare  here) 
White-breasted Nuthatch 
Black-and-White Warbler
Pine Warbler   several 
Blue Gray Gnatcatcher   7 total   5 in one group 
Goldfinch 

Happy Birding 
Danny Poet 
Queenstown , Maryland 
 



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