Rick -
 
I'm using the term carefully. All the aforementioned birds are summer (or a few winter) residents. The WTSP, MYWA's , etc stay in our yard all winter; the WOTH, LOWA, OVEN, SCTA stay with us all summer. There are never more than one (male) of each of the summer ones, whereas if they really were passing thru, the numbers would vary. 
 
Now a bird such as a WEVI, or PRAW, tho' within breeding range here, cannot be breeding nearby because there's no habitat. So he will continue to pass thru, maybe for a long way, and I would consider that a migrant. And of course a Bay-breast or Blackburnian is certainly a migrant.  So by "migrant" I mean "in the act of passing thru", not the fact that it does migrate.
 
One Spring we had a BAOR stay with us for ~ 10 days, and hoped against hope that this was the last known breeding Baltimore in CV Co, relocating from its abandoned former site 3 miles away to our yard. But in the end he moved on, mateless. So he was, properly speaking, a migrant too.
 
Good birding in your new home,
Fred 

From: Warblerick <>
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Sent: Wednesday, April 25, 2012 7:50 AM
Subject: Re: [MDOSPREY] Yard birds today


Fred,
 It seems to me that, technically speaking, Wood Thrush, Myrtle Warbler, Ovenbird, L. Waterthrush, Scarlet Tanager, and White-throated Sparrow are all migrants.Though some may stay to breed locally, they all migrate to other areas, either for the winter or summer (in the case of the sparrow).
 Ospreys, Blue Jays, Chipping Sparrows; also migrants or partial migrants. Can you explain what you mean by not a single migrant appears on the list?

Rick Sussman
Woodbine,MD
Notice that not a single migrant appears on this list.



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From: Frederick Fallon <>
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Sent: Tue, Apr 24, 2012 11:26 pm
Subject: [MDOSPREY] Yard birds today


Confined by a lingering illness to the house today, I tried to count as many 
birds as possible from that vantage point  and see what that would be. Nothing 
earth-shattering, just a good cross-section of this place and time:
 
Black Vulture 2
Turkey Vulture 3
Osprey
Bald Eagle, a
Cooper's Hawk
Red-shouldered Hawk (mercilessly mobbed by crows)
Mourning Dove 2
Downy Woodpecker
Red-bellied Woodpecker
Am Crow 4-5
Blue Jay
C Chickadee 3, still all adults tho' nestlings near ready to flege
T Titmouse 3
House Wren 
Carolina Wren
E Bluebird
Wood Thrush
Myrtle Warbler
Ovenbird
L. Waterthrush
Scarlet Tanager
Chipping Sparrow 3
White-thr Sparrow (only 1 left)
C Grackle 8 fly-overs
B-h Cowbird pr
N Cardinal
House Finch 4
Am Goldfinch 10
 
- 28 species. I've stayed up waiting for our Barred Owl but have not got him. 
Notice that not a single migrant appears on this list.
Also note the absence of Robin, Mockingbird, Song Sparrow !- common elsewhere 
but not with
 us.
 
Fred Fallon
Huntingtown

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