Same here.   Too many places to post including before and after conference trips.   Am doing this posting from a internet cafe here in O.C. in middle of firemen convention. 

Highlights: 

Friday before conference, John Dennehy came by my place and heard 3 Wood Thrush and a Ovenbird as one of my forest section has improved with lots understory became thicker.  At Harford Glen, picked up thrasher for John's county list.  Perryman Area has lots of breeders: willow flycatcher, horned lark, chat, grasshopper & field sparrow, meadowlark, orchard oriole
and lots more.  We went seperate way as John head east to Cecil and I went south to do some scouting in Queen Annes.    Heard a very close bobwhite in a long note at a private farm along Bennett Point. 

Saturday during conference: At Horsehead in am, Laughing Gull, Hairy Woodpecker fledged chase mother around, lots of Brown-headed Nuthatches and Pine Warblers calling, a few were seen, Marsh Wren.  At Eastern Neck, very slow due to heat, but we get to see 2 prs of kingfishers, some Brown-headed Nuthatches, Marsh Wren, Pine Warblers, chat, Blue Grosbeaks. ON way back to Washington College, we picked out 3 Cattle Egrets at Rt 213 & Reese Corner Rd.   

Sunday am: a very odd day as we found 5 out-of-season waterfowl (none were seen on Sat trip) and they are adult Tundra Swan, hen Green-winged Teal, drake Lesser Scaup, drake Surf Scoter and drake Bufflehead.  But we often get scoter and scaup all summer there.  Also a Brown Pelican seen by a few on a pilings at Parson Island. Virginia Rail & Willet calling, Great Horned Owl flew through woods, more nuthatches, Yellow-throated and Pine Warblers seen and heard, chat, 2 seaside sparrows. 

Afterward, stop by Chino Farms near shrike site and picked out dickcissel through scope as it's way out, meadowlarks, horned larks, field sparrows. And off to Ocean City. 



   Kevin Graff
   West O.C., MD (on/off for summer)