Hi Les:

Be sure to check each one of the 30,000 for Redwings ...

         http://www.birdguides.com/species/species.asp?sp=130289

... or Eyebrowed Thrushes ...

         http://creagrus.home.montereybay.com/AMRO_v_EBTH.html

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Phil


At 13:02 07/20/2009, Les Roslund wrote:
>There is a seasonally-used Robin roost site in Talbot County, beside Rte 50
>right in Easton, MD.  The small patch of woods just north of the Holiday Inn
>Express Motel is the location.
>
>Robins have started coming to that site, as of a week or so ago this year,
>right on schedule.
>
>In previous years, Robin numbers using this site continued to grow until the
>first week in November.  Some years the numbers have reached 30,000
>according to early morning counts made by members of the Talbot Bird Club.
>The birds start leaving the roost about 30 minutes before dawn (sun breaking
>the horizon), and the flight out is finished within less than 20 minutes.
>The flight out has birds bursting out in all directions, and often many of
>them are quite close to the ground.   (Some of the car drivers along Rte 50
>may get quite a surprise.)
>
>Sometime in early November, when the temperature and wind conditions reach
>some kind of trigger point, the birds just disappear, save for a very few
>stragglers.  There can be as many as 20,000 or 30,000 counted the morning of
>the day that they leave. That evening the number gathering into the roost
>may may be only a few hundreds.  The rest are gone!

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