Hi Everyone,

My fiancee Becky and I walked around the perimeter of Fort Smallwood late this afternoon. New arrivals here were an immature YELLOW-BELLIED SAPSUCKER and our first-of-fall GOLDEN-CROWNED KINGLET. There's usually a small flock of birds working the wet meadow area across from the old battery, and there seems to be quite a bit of turnover. Today it included an EASTERN WOOD-PEWEE, a MYRTLE WARBLER, and a BLACKPOLL WARBLER, the latter two feeding in the goldenrod.

Here's the full list:

Canada Goose--45
Double-crested Cormorant--4
Great Blue Heron--3
Killdeer--1
Ring-billed Gull--7
Herring Gull (American)--1
gull sp.--5
Mourning Dove--3
Belted Kingfisher--1 male; migrant
Red-bellied Woodpecker--2
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker--1 
Downy Woodpecker--1
Northern Flicker (Yellow-shafted)--3
Eastern Wood-Pewee--1
Blue Jay--2
Carolina Chickadee--3
Tufted Titmouse--1
White-breasted Nuthatch--2
Carolina Wren--1
Golden-crowned Kinglet--1
Eastern Bluebird--9
Gray Catbird--1
Northern Mockingbird--3
European Starling--100
Yellow-rumped Warbler (Myrtle)--1
Blackpoll Warbler--1
Chipping Sparrow--15
Northern Cardinal--1
Red-winged Blackbird--1
House Finch--2
American Goldfinch--1

Good birding,

Bill

Bill Hubick
Pasadena, Maryland

http://www.billhubick.com