The few spots of rain gave way to a very pleasant morning at Point of Rocks. Highlights included several singing YELLOW-THROATED WARBLERS and RUBY-CROWNED KINGLETS. A pair of PURPLE MARTINS were feeding over the marsh and I heard my first of the year BLUE-GRAY GNATCATCHER Species list: Double-crested Cormorant Black Vulture Turkey Vulture Canada Goose Osprey Sharp-shinned Hawk Coopers Hawk Red-shouldered Hawk Killdeer Laughing Gull Mourning Dove Red-bellied Woodpecker Downy Woodpecker Northern Flicker Pileated Woodpecker Blue Jay American Crow Purple Martin Carolina Chickadee Tufted Titmouse White-breasted Nuthatch Carolina Wren Ruby-crowned Kinglet Blue-gray Gnatcatcher American Robin European Starling Yellow-rumped Warbler Yellow-throated Warbler Pine Warbler Eastern Towhee Song Sparrow White-throated Sparrow Northern Cardinal Red-winged Blackbird Common Grackle American Goldfinch Wendy Ealding Chesterfield County