HI all --

A more quiet morning at WRP today, but still some good birds around if you
kept searching! Certainly a beautiful autumn day to be out. Had our first
PURPLE FINCH for the season as well as the first actually *well-seen*
Red-breasted Nuthatch. Warbler numbers way down, except for BT Blues, and
the hoards of Kinglets were gone -- just "normal" numbers today. Came home
to see a hummingbird working our blue salvia, but it flew off -- frightened
by a loud and close lawnmower -- before we could ID it. Will keep eyes open!

Birds of interest:

Great Blue Heron - 1
Red-shouldered Hawk - 1
Belted Kingfisher - 1
Eastern Phoebe - 5
Brown Creeper - 1
House Wren - 3
Winter Wren - 2
Gray Catbird - 8
Eastern Bluebird - unseen flyovers calling
Hermit Thrush - see by another birder
Golden-crowned Kinglet - 8
Ruby-crowned Kinglet - 15
Red-eyed Vireo - 1
Blue-headed Vireo - 5 (one singing loudly for much of the morning)
Black-throated Blue Warbler - 15+
Palm Warbler - 4 (all were yellow Palms)
Myrtle Warbler - 5
Common Yellowthroat - 6
Swamp Sparrow - 3
WHITE-CROWNED SPARROW - 1 imm.
White-throated Sparrow  - 40+
Chipping Sparrow - 20+
Dark-eyed Junco - 10
Eastern Towhee - 8
PURPLE FINCH - 1 ("brownie")

No sign of yesterday's Connecticut W. -- several birders looking...

Gail Mackiernan and Barry Cooper
Colesville, MD