I wanted to see if anything of interest was at Dillon reservoir. Nothing unusual but I had v pleasant birding mostly at the Horse Camping area which I’ve been meaning to explore for awhile.

At the beach, the only shorebirds were Killdeer. There were some swallows—a mix of Tree, Barn and Rough-wingeds. I tried to pick out Banks but wasn’t successful & none were perched on the wires. There were also a few Chimney Swifts.

There must’ve been over 30 Great Egrets and probably nearly as many Great Blue Herons. About 15 Great Egrets were roosting on the top of the tree across the reservoir. An adult Bald Eagle was camped out on a distant sand bar. The gulls were too far to figure out if anything was unusual but it looked like Ring-billeds and perhaps a few Herring Gulls. Lots of DC Cormorants.

At the Horse Camp parking lot, I had some warbler activity even if they seemed to prefer thick cover making IDs difficult. Best was my FOS Palm and finally, a fall male Cape May in one of the pines. And I found another singing Hooded altho it refused to show itself. Missed Redstart.

Warblers
Palm FOS
Cape May male
Blackburnian 
Bay-breasted
Blackpoll
Magnolia
N Parula, also singing
Hooded
Tennessee 
Com YT
Nashville—on the Lock trail at Black Hand Gorge

Vireos 
Yellow-throated, singing
Red-eyed
White-eyed

E Peewee
Great-crested FC
Empid sp
Cedar Waxwing
Scarlet Tanager female
Wood Thrush
Swainson’s Thrush
Red-headed WP
Bald Eagle ad
Red-shouldered Hawk
Great Egret 
Great Blue Heron
Killdeer
Barn, Tree & RW Swallow
Chimney Swift
Chipping Sp

Peggy Wang
Granville 
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