Date: 9/12/25 12:53 pm From: Harry Armistead <harryarmistead...> Subject: [MDBirding] September 11, 2025, Bellevue
Rigby’s Folly, only here from 12.50 - 3:06 P.M. George & Harry Armistead. over cast, calm, 71 degrees F., tide low and rising. Sometimes the short visits are among the most successful, even though today parts of these 2+ hours are spent going up & down the driveway, watering the plantings, eating lunch (Pho Van friend rice w/ pork), and, of course, opening up & closing the house.
Most of this stuff George finds. Minnows below the dock vigorously attack some of the pork I threw them. They like it better than I do. I’d asked for shrimp rather than pork. A little later a good-sized blue crab comes in and investigates around the submerged rocks of the lowest rip rap.
Diamondback Terrapin 51. Basking even though it is overcast and cool. Make 7 counts, this one the middle one, and the highest. Snouts ahoy, at the mouth of Poplar Cove, none any farther up the cove.
butterflies: pearl crescent 1, common wood nymph 2, red-spotted purple 1, red admiral 1. mammals: gray squirrel 1, white-tailed deer 1 doe.
birds, 39 species: pretty good warblering: 9 species. black-and-white 3, magnolia 4, yellow 2, chestnut-sided 1, black-throated green 1, and Canada 2 plus common yellowthroat 1, northern parula 1, and American redstart 8.
It is surprising how many of the redstarts are adult males. As the case most of the time in the fall the with Neotropical migrants such as this, in the East close to the coast most of the fall migrants are immatures, the adults staying primarily in the Piedmont or along the ridges. Elsewhere some other observers today remark at their surprise at seeing so many adult male redstarts.
other migrant birds: warbling vireo (a scarce fall migrant on the coastal plain), red-eyed vireo 6, eastern wood-pewee 1, Traill’s flycatcher 1, blue-gray gnatcatcher 3, veery 3, Catharus thrush 1. Other birds of interest: osprey 1, bald eagle 1, snowy egret 1, great blue heron 1, and eastern screech-owl 1. In sum, a very rewarding visit considering how short it was.
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