Hello All,
	It has been a very slow year on the farm at Oak Grove (for the new readers, on the state line between Seaford, DE and Federalsburg, MD) so I have not made many posts.  But this weekend, I did come up with a few birds of interest with the passing of the latest weak cold front.  Conditions here are extremely dry with the last significant rain coming on 7/24.  Surprisingly, 3 of the 6 wetland ponds still have water.

	On Sunday morning (8/31), the cold front passed during the wee hours.  The only change in the weather was less humidity.  The temperature was still in the 70s and there was an east wind after 9AM.  How is there an east wind after a cold front?  Anyway, my first find was 6 Baltimore Orioles, an Orchard Oriole and a Yellow Warbler in my sunflower patch.  One Baltimore had some aberrant coloring with the orange areas being a deep red about the color of concentrated yellow food dye.  Redstarts and B&W Warbler were in the adjacent woods and a Cooper's hawk buzzed the area (Bob, all DE).  Moving to the MD side, I found a single female BTB Warbler (FOY), FOY House Wren (only a fall migrant here), 2 WE Vireos and a Solitary Sand in one of the ponds.
	In the evening, I went out at dusk to scan for Nighthawk.  2 Nighthawks (FOY) appeared briefly, flew across the remaining bright area in the NW sky and vanished.
	On Monday morning (9/1), it felt more like a front had actually passed with a morning low of 55.  But it was one of those morning where the activity died after 9 AM.  Before that, I checked several spots that I missed on Sunday.  Along the railroad bordering the farm, I found a FOY Magnolia Warbler (FOY), Yellowthroat, Great Crested Fly and BG Gnatcatcher that I missed the day before.  Also found were 2 empid sp.  They had a small, rounded head; complete eyering; completely yellow underside, but in strong morning sunlight so not really helpful; no vocalizations.  All these birds MD.  The orioles continue in the sunflower patch. 
	On Horseshoe Rd at the stream crossing (DE), I found a nice group of warblers with 4+ Redstart, 4+ B&W, another Maggie, and an immature Chestnut-Sided (FOY).  And then a thrush appeared at the back of the group, never really came out into the open, but I did get a decent look at it.  It had very limited and diffuse spotting on its throat, uniform brown on top (did not see tail) and no apparent cheek patch.  This Veery was the first new addition to my home list this year and #201 overall.

Good Birding,
Glen Lovelace III
Seaford, DE