Hi all --

Taking advantage of the rain and looking at last years' Hains Point goodies
at about this same date (multiple Franklin's Gulls, Turnstone) Barry and I
went down to check things out. Lots of gulls on the golf course but no
Franklin's, 97% were Ring-billed with a few Herring and immature GBBG.

However we were rewarded with a summer-plumaged BLACK TERN sitting on a
green buoy, about 1/2 way out from the first parking lot as you round the
point, in line with National AP. Along with this bird were about 6 Forster's
Terns. Quite a few migrants in the trees all along, dominated by
Yellow-rumps and a real fall-out of Catbirds (20? 25?).

Birds of Interest:

Bald Eagle (1)
Peregrine Falcon (1, hunting over golf course)
Osprey (1)
COMMON LOON (3)
Greater Yellowlegs (5)
Solitary Sandpiper (2)
Least Sandpiper (5)
BLACK TERN (1)
Forster's Tern (6-8)
Eastern Kingbird (3)
Eastern Phoebe (1)
BANK SWALLOW (8, over river near shore)
No. Rough-winged Swallow (12, over golf course)
Warbling Vireo (2)
Red-eyed Vireo (1)
Scarlet Tanager (1)
TENNESSEE WARBLER (1, lane nr. maintenance yard, singing in the rain!)
Blackpoll Warbler (1, heard only)
Yellow-rumped Warbler (35+, most heard only)
Yellow Warbler (2-3)
Common Yellowthroat (3)
Gray Catbird (20+)
Brown Thrasher (1)
Swamp Sparrow (2)
WHITE-CROWNED SPARROW (1, adult, lane near mini golf course)
Eastern Towhee (2-3)
Baltimore Oriole (1)
Orchard Oriole (1-2, heard only)

Gail Mackiernan and Barry Cooper
Colesville, MD