Greetings


I spent a lovely four hours on the Elk Neck Peninsula this morning, most of
which were at Turkey Point. I ended at noon with 60 species; the majority
were found during my two plus mile walk at TP. In all TP held loads of
migrants with most of them found all the way out at the light house. Good
number of ten different species of warbler, three vireos, and other
neotropic passerines present. Ann Demott (sp?) was working the hawk watch so
my numbers are not indicative of what was officially recorded.  But I did
have two nice little Broad-winged Kettles! Other notables included Cape May
Warbler, Blackburnian Warbler, Philadelphia Vireo, and my FOS Ruby-crowned
Kinglet.



Following my foray to Elk Neck, I took a leisurely four hour cruise around
the Hances Point area of the North East River and picked up another four
species for the day. Here I found two more cormorants, about 250 Ring-billed
Gulls, 50 Laughing Gulls, 15 Great Black-backed Gulls, 2 Herring Gulls, and
one more Caspian Tern. Zero Forster's Terns were seen. However on Saturday
there were approximately 30 of them loafing around the Charlestown Marinas
(North East River).



Below is a breakdown of the migrants which I located at Elk Neck this
morning.





Elk River Road

Cattle Egret (1) –down from 300 two weeks ago…

American Kestrel (1 –resident)





Elk Neck State Park

DC Cormorant (2)

Canada Goose (dozens -high fly-overs)

Sharp-shinned Hawk (5)

Cooper's Hawk (2)

Broad-winged Hawk (54)

American Kestrel (2)

Caspian Tern (2)

Eastern Screech Owl (6)

RT Hummingbird (5)

Chimney Swift (200+)

Eastern Wood-Pewee (10)

empid sp. (7)

Eastern Phoebe (3)

GC Flycatcher (2)

Tree Swallow (10)

Northern Rough-winged Swallow (2)

swallow sp. (100+)

White-eyed Vireo (2 –down from 15 on Sunday)

Red-eyed Vireo (20+ -up from 5 on Sunday)

PHILADELPHIA VIREO (5)!

Blue-gray Gnatcatcher (25 –up from Sunday)

House Wren (3)

RUBY-CROWNED KINGLET (1)

Veery (2)

G. Catbird (15 –up from 1 on Sunday)

B. Thrasher (2 –down from 13 on Sunday)

N. Parula (12)

Chestnut-sided Warbler (1)

Magnolia Warbler (15)

CAPE MAY WARBLER (3)

Black-throated Blue Warbler (9)

Black-throated Green Warbler (35+)!

BLACKBURNIAN WARBLER (7)!

Black and White Warbler (8)

American Redstart (13)

Common Yellowthroat (4)

Scarlet Tanager (7)

Rose-breasted Grosbeak (2)

Indigo Bunting (1)



Good Birding,

Chris Starling

North East, MD