As much as I had hoped the weather would have been more conducive to
photography today I am real happy I was able to enjoy a most pleasant day
around the house. Beside the birds mentioned earlier I had some more
yearbirds and yard birds later on as well as a fairly good raptor flight,
mostly second-year hawks.
Highlights of the day were:
Mississippi Kite--1 adult southbound
Bald Eagle--1 pair
Osprey--1
Red-tailed Hawk--5
Red-shouldered Hawk--4
Broad-winged Hawk--2
Cooper's Hawk--4
Turkey Vulture--30+
Black Vulture--12
Belted Kingfisher--1
Solitary Sandpiper--2
Black-billed Cuckoo--1 M singing on and off throughout afternoon
Chimney Swift--18
Great crested Flycatcher--1
Eastern Kingbird--1
House Wren--2
Gray catbird--3
Veery--1 heard during night migration around midnight
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher--1
Yellow-rumped Warbler--12
Blackpoll Warbler--1 singing M down the street
Yellow Warbler--1 M
Ovenbird--1 M
Rose-breasted Grosbeak--1
Eastern Towhee--2
Bobolink--2 M northbound
Baltimore Oriole--1 F
Frode Jacobsen
Windsor Mill, Md 21244 |