HI all,


   A very birdy day at Turkey Point early Saturday morning. Joined Monroe Harden part of the morning.  I was doing a screech owl whistling to get the warblers down from the top and heard chickadee and titmice commotion at cliff edge near parking lot and heard the owl pretty close below somewhere down there. Bunch of chickadee, titmice and gnatcatchers making lots of commotion down there.

   Very cool to see early migrants including Merlin about a mile north of state park around 615am going after the blackbird, Red-breasted Nuthatch near hawkwatch site and a Cape May Warbler at first patch of woods away from parking lot.  


08/28/10 - 625am-845am
Elk Neck SP--Turkey Point, Turkey Point Rd., North East, Cecil Co., MD

WEATHER: Fair, 56-69 degrees, NNW 4 mph- NNE 5 mph

Mallard - 1
Double-crested Cormorant - 6
Great Blue Heron - 2
Osprey - 1
Bald Eagle - 1
Merlin - 1 (going after blackbird, north of state park on way down)
Laughing Gull - 3
Ring-billed Gull - 3
Caspian Tern - 1
Mourning Dove - 2
Yellow-billed Cuckoo - 1
Eastern Screech Owl - 1 
Chimney Swift - 135
Ruby-throated Hummingbird - 1
Red-bellied Woodpecker - 2
Downy Woodpecker - 2
Hairy Woodpecker - 1
Northern Flicker - 1
Yellow-bellied Flycatcher - 1 (I was expecting Olive-sided this time of
Eastern Wood-Pewee - 3          year)   
Least Flycatcher - 1
Eastern Phoebe - 1
Great Crested Flycatcher - 2
Eastern Kingbird - 2
Warbling Vireo - 1
Red-eyed Vireo - 3
Blue Jay - 2
American Crow - 2
Purple Martin - 1
Tree Swallow - 14
Barn Swallow - 6
Carolina Chickadee - 6
Tufted Titmouse - 9
Red-breasted Nuthatch - 1 (near hawkwatch site)
White-breasted Nuthatch - 2
Carolina Wren - 2
House Wren - 1
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher - 17
Eastern Bluebird - 6
American Robin - 2
Gray Catbird - 4
Northern Mockingbird - 2 (both high flying headed S)
Brown Thrasher - 1
European Starling - 9
Cedar Waxwing - 32
Blue-winged Warbler - 1
Tennessee Warbler - 1 (near parking lot)
Nashville Warbler - 1
Northern Parula - 4
Chestnut-sided Warbler - 8
Magnolia Warbler - 8
Cape May Warbler - 1 (very early!)
Black-throated Blue Warbler - 3
Black-throated Green Warbler - 1
Blackburnin Warbler - 1
Black-and-white Warbler - 2
American Redstart - 8
Ovenbird - 2
Common Yellowthroat - 4
Canada Warbler - 1
Scarlet Tanager - 1
Chipping Sparrow - 2
Northern Cardinal - 2
Bobolink - 3
Red-winged Blackbird - 6
Baltimore Oriole - 1
House Finch - 1
American Goldfinch - 14
SPECIES: 68
INDIVIDUALS: 374


    Kevin Graff
    Jarrettsville, MD