Hi all,

Ahhh, the difference a day makes...while today was a "good" day, it was 
not an "extraordinary" day like yesterday. INot unexpected, it has been our 
exeperince over the years that the day after a major migrant push is 
slower. However, birds there were and we enjoyed them! We met Diane 
Ford during the morning and birde together for a while; she will post 
anything seen after we left. The peak of actvity was, like yesterday, from 
about 8:30 to 9:15, then died quickly.

We mostly did sites (from Shorefield Picnic Area) behind the white house 
-- which was quite active early -- and then along the mini-train tracks and 
the wooded edge of Pine Lake. A swing through Brookside Gardens 
parking lot revealed no OSFL (one can always hope, we had two here on 
September 12 last year) and we caught up wth a few birds near the 
Brookside Nature Ctr. pond. 

Birds of Interest:

Pied-billed Grebe - 1 (swimming with 2 Canada Geese, a strange sight)
Great Blue Heron - 2
Little Green Heron - 4
Red-shouldered Hawk - 2
Chimney Swift - several small groups of 6-8, flying south 
Ruby-throated Hummingbird - 7
Belted Kingfisher - 2 
Eastern Wood-pewee - 12 including adult w/ 2 young birds
Acadian Flycatcher - 1 fresh fall bird
Alder Flycatcher - 1, HY with buffy wing-bars, called constantly with loud  
rather sharp "pit" note, thin but distinct eye-ring, long primary
projection, 
whitish underparts
Empid sp.- 2
Eastern Phoebe - 1 (heard only)
Great Crested Flycatcher - 3
Yellow-throated Vireo - 1 
Red-eyed Vireo - 20+
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher - 6
Eastern Bluebird - 5 (pair w/ 3 fledged young)
Blue-winged Warbler - 1
Nashville Warbler - 1
Chestnut-sided Warbler - 12+
Magnolia Warbler - 4
Black-and-White Warbler - 5
Black-throated Blue Warbler - 1 lovely male @ Brookside Nature Ctr.
Blackburnian Warbler - 8 (all dull HY birds)
Black-throated Green Warber - 3
Canada Warbler - 1 (Diane Ford)
American Redstart - 12+
Eastern Towhee - 3
Chipping Sparrow - 8-10
BOBOLINK - 1, fly-over calling

Note: NO tanagers, orioles, and amazingly, no Yellowthroats

Gail Mackiernan and Barry Cooper
Colesville, MD











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