Hi all --

Long drive down and back and not too much to show for it, alas...Met Leo
Weigant at Long Neck Rd -- I got there about 8:30 AM but Leo had already
been there for about an hour. There was a modest flock of Cowbirds with some
Starlings around the feeders of the white house, venturing out into the
adjacent field, but per Leo, no sign of the Yellow-headed Blackbird. Leslie
Starr and Joe Turner arrived shortly thereafter and we all spread out
looking for other flocks -- or birds perched on phone poles, whatever. This
was also unproductive. The original cowbird flock, joined by more starlings,
puttered around the field, new house and feeders for about another hour --
often giving perfect views of every bird in the flock, but no "yella fella."

Sorties along Long Neck Road yielded:

Bald Eagle - 1
American Kestrel - 1
Eastern Bluebird - 20+
Palm Warbler - 2-3
Savannah Sparrow -- many!
Field Sparrow - 4-5
White-crowned Sparrow - 1-2 (more were heard singing up a hedgerow)
Song Sparrow - 10+
Eastern Meadowlark - 6-8

Leo and I went down to Point Lookout, the point itself was dead -- one
Meadowlark and 3-4 Bluebirds in the fenced lighthouse area, 2-3 Juncos in
the grass, Common Loon and one Brown Pelican offshore. Only a few Monarchs
around. The campground had 1-2 Brown-headed Nuthatches, tons of Myrtle
Warblers and lots of hungry mosquitoes! We both heard a Red-breasted
Nuthatch calling on the drive from the point to the campground.

Otherwise rather uneventful. Hope the bird stays around but it appears not
to be with the cowbirds, or -- at least not this morning.

Gail Mackiernan
Colesville, MD