Hi All,

I have been trying to get out most mornings of late for 1-2 hr walks. 
This morning featured 38 species including five warblers. These included 
single Chestnut-sided and Magnolia warblers, 3 yellowthroats, and a 
redstart. The best warbler was a young female MOURNING WARBLER I flushed 
out of the tickseed sunflower into young sweet gums along a path at the 
local successional meadow along Elbon Road. This was only the third of 
its kind in our nine years here at Chesapeake Landing. I also had a 
calling Veery at the landing on Mill Creek. I have appended my e-bird 
list  for today below my signature block.

After some errands in town Nancy and I stopped to check Great Oak Pond. 
Nancy is raising some buckeye caterpillars and has been harvesting 
English plantain for them near the pond. The summering drake RING-NECKED 
DUCK is still present in full chocolate-brown eclipse plumage. Also 
there today was a single young PIED-BILLED GREBE, scarce at Great Oak 
Pd, and scant numbers of three shorebird species: 4 Lesser Yellowlegs, 3 
Least Sandpipers, and a Killdeer. Will this be the final hurrah for this 
summer's heat? The cicadas are beginning to sound tired.

Good birding,

Walter Ellison

23460 Clarissa Rd
Chestertown, MD 21620

410-778-9568

Observing Nature is like unwrapping a big pile of presents every time 
you take a walk.

e-bird list follows:

Location:     Chesapeake Landing
Observation date:     8/30/10
Notes:     Clear, warm, humid with ground fog burning off, 68-76 deg F., windless. Second observer: Nancy Martin. Mourning Warbler was a first-fall female with buffy broken eye ring, yellow throat with a hint of a brownish hood border at the bottom, and long bright yellow under tail coverts. Foster's Tern appeared to be the same juvenile seen twice last week.
Number of species:     38

Mallard     1
Great Blue Heron     2
Black Vulture     1
Forster's Tern     1
Mourning Dove     5
Yellow-billed Cuckoo     1
Chimney Swift     8
Ruby-throated Hummingbird     5
Red-bellied Woodpecker     7
Downy Woodpecker     1
Hairy Woodpecker     1
Northern Flicker (Yellow-shafted)     1
Eastern Wood-Pewee     3
Great Crested Flycatcher     1
Red-eyed Vireo     3
Blue Jay     3
American Crow     6
Purple Martin     3
Tree Swallow     4
swallow sp.     1
Carolina Chickadee     5
Tufted Titmouse     9
White-breasted Nuthatch     1
Carolina Wren     4
Veery     1
American Robin     1
Gray Catbird     1
European Starling     1
Cedar Waxwing     3
Chestnut-sided Warbler     1
Magnolia Warbler     1
American Redstart     1
Mourning Warbler     1
Common Yellowthroat     3
Northern Cardinal     18
Indigo Bunting     2
Red-winged Blackbird     23
House Finch     3
American Goldfinch     6