Date: 10/12/26 8:55 am From: 'James Tyler Bell' via Maryland & DC Birding <mdbirding...> Subject: [MDBirding] Pt. Lookout Rarity Roundup, November 7, 2026
I know this is short notice but we only recently batted the idea around. Hopefully we'll get enough people to make this work! Let me know ASAP! Tyler <Belljtylerbell...>, Maryland
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Date: 10/12/26 6:30 am From: Cintia Cabib <cintia...> Subject: [MDBirding] "Bird Walk" Film Screening at Chevy Chase Library on October 17
Join me for a screening and discussion of my documentary “Bird Walk” on Saturday, October 17 at 2 p.m. at the Chevy Chase Library, 5625 Connecticut Ave. NW, Washington, D.C. 20015: https://dclibrary.libnet.info/event/17542257. Please note that this is the Chevy Chase Library in Washington, D.C., NOT the one in Montgomery County.
“Bird Walk" takes viewers on an aural and visual excursion through an abandoned golf course in Rockville, Maryland, where birders discover more than 160 bird species and mount a grassroots campaign to preserve this avian oasis as a public park and critical bird habitat. You can learn more about the film and watch the trailer at https://www.birdwalkfilm.com <https://www.birdwalkfilm.com/>
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RBWoodpecker, long-held to be a sedentary, non-migratory species, but big counts were done a few years ago, for the 1st time, in MD & Philadelphia.
blue jay: incl. a single flock of 140.
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Date: 10/5/26 12:58 pm From: Cintia Cabib <cintia...> Subject: [MDBirding] "Bird Walk" Documentary Screening on October 10
Celebrate World Migratory Bird Day! I will be screening and discussing my documentary “Bird Walk” on Saturday, October 10 at 2 p.m. at the Gaithersburg Library, 18330 Montgomery Village Ave., Gaithersburg, MD: https://mcpl.libnet.info/event/17194999
Discover how an abandoned golf course became an avian oasis for birds and birders and learn about the grassroots campaign to preserve the 131-acre site as a public park and critical bird habitat. Watch the trailer and learn more about the film at https://www.birdwalkfilm.com <https://www.birdwalkfilm.com/>.
This screening is supported in part by funding from the Montgomery County Government and the Arts & Humanities Council of Montgomery County.
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Date: 9/30/26 8:02 am From: Cintia Cabib <cintia...> Subject: [MDBirding] Corrected Times: "Bird Walk" Film Screenings on 10/5 and 10/10
Please note that the “Bird Walk” film screening on Monday, October 5 at the Nancy H. Dacek North Potomac Community Recreation Center is taking place at 9:30 a.m. (NOT 9:30 p.m.)
Also, the film screening at the Gaithersburg Library on Saturday, October 10 is taking place at 2 p.m. (NOT 10 a.m.). See screening link at https://mcpl.libnet.info/event/17194999
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Date: 9/29/26 7:11 am From: Cintia Cabib <cintia...> Subject: [MDBirding] "Bird Walk" Film Screenings on October 5 and 10
Hi, everyone
I would like to invite you to free public screenings of my documentary “Bird Walk” on Monday, October 5 at 9:30 a.m. at the Nancy H. Dacek North Potomac Community Recreation Center and Saturday, October 10 at 2 p.m. at the Gaithersburg Library. There is no registration. Just come on in and take a seat! Discover how an abandoned golf course became an oasis for birds and birders and learn about the grassroots campaign that helped preserve the 131-acre site as a public park and critical bird habitat: https://www.birdwalfkilm.com <https://www.birdwalfkilm.com/>.
Monday, October 5 at 9:30 p.m.
at the Active Aging Week kickoff event
Nancy H. Dacek North Potomac Community Recreation Center
13850 Travilah Rd.
Rockville, MD 20850
Saturday, October 10 at 10
in celebration of World Migratory Bird Day
Gaithersburg Library
18330 Montgomery Village Ave.
Gaithersburg, MD 20879
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5 A.M.- 2:15 P.M. 14 hours owling. miles owling 47. parties owling 4. observers owling 7. hours afoot 38. miles afoot 14. hours by car 33. miles by car 339. sectors regular 10 (Elliott I. = 2 sectors in 1.
10 species w/ the highest nos.: starling 1,682. laughing gull 527. Canada goose 469. common grackle 448. red-winged blackbird 388. Forster’s tern 260. herring gull 184. turkey vulture 164. semipalmated sandpiper 140. great egret 131.
DRAMATIS PERSONAE:
Elliott I. Rd.: Suzette Stitely. James Bachman.
Taylors I.: Wayne Bell, George Radcliffe, YMOS Karolina Mandell.
East Central County, S. Of Rt. 50, W. Of Elliott I. Rd.: Steve Ford.
Matt Whitbeck: off limits parts of Blackwater NWR.
North County (N. Of Route 50): Jim Green.
Ron Ketter: restricted areas of BNWR (exclusive of those Matt covers)
Terry Allen central Blackwater NWR.
Many thanks to y'all. MANY !! Best wishes. - Harry Armistead.
We missed: glossy ibis, b.-c. night heron, spotted sandpiper, fish crow, field sparrow, rose-breasted grosbeak. There’s always surprising misses.
non-avian species: Matt Whitbeck’s list of such is impressive enough so that it merits inclusion in its entirety. Here it is: Sika - 6
Gray squirrel - 2
fox squirrel - 1
Common buckeyes
Monarchs
Gray hairstreak
Eastern tailed blue
Viceroy - 3-4
Common Checkered white - 3
Orange Sulphur
Silver spotted skipper
Black swallowtail
Variegated fritillary
American lady 1
Pearl crescent
Common Wood nymph-1 tattered
Seaside dragonlet
twelve-spotted skimmer
Common whitetail
Common green darner 1
Needham’s skimmer
Great blue skimmer
Slaty skimmer skimmer
Plain bellied watersnake - 1
others’ non-avian: seaside dragonlet (photographed
painted turtle 1.
black rat snake 1
painted lady 1
cloudless sulphurs 6
clouded sulphur 1
monarch 12
buckeye 8
gray hairstreak 2
silver-spotted skipper 6
river otter 3 (photographed)
gray squirrel 6
sika deer 1
white-tailed deer, 1 small fawn
“Just a brief commentary on the day. I am amazed every year how it just seems to get slower and slower particularly with the passerines.
It was very difficult to finally get 6 species of warblers. If someone else could find them –thank goodness for the count. It is so obvious that the # of birds is declining and species too from what I can see. I was in perfect habitat all day and it was just silent. Thanks for handling the count as always. I enjoy and look forward to this day. Take care.” - Steve Ford. His comments above I agree w/ 100%. Not much neotrops, migratory landbirds migration.- HTA.
Terry Allen said he walked the BNWR Marsh Edge Trail and did not see 1 bird.
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