I birded the Browns Bridge area yesterday and on the way i had Mute Swan at the Fulton Pond . Ok im sure the answer is not what i want to hear but can someone tell me why i cant enter the Swan on Ebird ?� errereerrrrrrrrrrr!!!!!! Then where is the Swan that is capable of being entered on Ebird ?? Really bad subject ! Or is Wild Mute�Swan just Obsolete ?
Saundra Byrd
<byrdwatcher5...>
baltimore
--- On Thu, 8/9/12, Michael Bowen <dhmbowen...> wrote:
From: Michael Bowen <dhmbowen...>
Subject: [MDBirding] Browns Bridge Rd. (Howard County), August 9
To: <mdbirding...>
Date: Thursday, August 9, 2012, 4:54 PM
There was a nice selection of shorebirds along the Howard County bank of the Patuxent River on Browns Bridge Rd. late this morning, 8/9/12.� Many Semipalmated Sandpipers, rather fewer Least, 3 Solitary, 4 Pectoral, 5 Killdeer, a Lesser Yellowlegs, and a bird I am reasonably confident was a WHITE-RUMPED SANDPIPER.
The putative White-rumped was feeding voraciously with Semipalmated Sandpipers; it was noticeably larger than they, darker backed, longer winged, and with a heavier black bill, slightly down curved, and black legs.� The breast was diffusely streaked dark, with a small number of contrasting and sharply defined black streaks along the white flanks below the wings.� The bird did not fly at all, so no chance to see a white rump was afforded.
I searched my bird books for a picture of a bird that looked very much like this one, and I found it on Page 69 of the new (2011 edition) of Kenn Kaufman's Field Guide to Advanced Birding.
I birded with Helen Patton and Linda Friedland from Montgomery County.� We looked for the Western Sandpiper that has been reported several times from this location but could not find it.� I later spoke to Joe Hanfman by phone, and we think that there may have been both a White-rumped and a Western Sandpiper present at Brown's Bridge today.
Earlier we had birded the mud flats in Triadelphia Reservoir from vantage points at Greenbridge Rd. and Triadelphia Lake Rd., both on the Montgomery County side.� Many birds there were frustratingly too far away to identify confidently, but certainly included Killdeer, Spotted, Pectoral and Solitary Sandpipers, several Semipalmated Plovers and lots of "peep."� By contrast, the birds at Brown's Bridge were much closer and made for more satisfying viewing.
No sign of American Avocet anywhere.� A few Cliff Swallows still at Brighton Dam.
Michael Bowen
Montgomery Bird Club
Bethesda, MD
D.H. Michael Bowen
8609 Ewing Drive
Bethesda, MD� 20817
Telephone: (301) 530-5764
e-mail:� dhmbowenATyahooDOTcom
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