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Good Migrants at Turkey Point, Cecil Co.

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dan small

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Mon, 31 Aug 2009 14:31:55 -0700

I was able to work yesterday and do some birding today so I headed up to Turkey Point to see what the overnight north winds would bring. It was my first time visiting Turkey Point and I wasn't disappointed. My numbers are on the conservative side as I wasn't sure how the birds were moving around the point. I ended the morning with 67 species.

Migrant highlights: 0650-1140

Least Flycatcher- 4
Yellow-bellied Flycatcher- 1
Trails Flycatcher- 2
Unknown Empid- 2
Eastern Kingbird- 6
Blue Gray Gnatcatcher- 25
American Redstart- 6
Black and White Warbler- 9
Chestnut-sided Warbler-3
Magnolia Warbler- 5
Tennessee warbler- 1
Blackburnian Warbler-1
Black-throated Warbler- 1
Canada Warbler- 3
Worm-eating Warbler-1
Black-throated Warbler- 1
Blue-winged Warbler-1
Northern Waterthrush- 1
Orchard Oriole- 2
Baltimore Oriole- 4
Bobolink- 5

I also had about 45 songbird flyovers in the early morning that went unidentified. No migrant raptors.

Places to keep an eye on. There is a recently hayed field about 2 miles north of Cecilton  on the west side of the road that didn't have anything on it today but looks very promising. 

In Kent county, 2 or 3 miles west of Galena a old corn field was being turned over and had large numbers of Laughing Gulls (300) and Killdeer (~150). Other birds in the field were 120 or so Horned Larks, 1 Lesser Yellowlegs and 2 peep sp.

Dan Small
Chestertown, MD