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Dear all,

This morning I was able to take a few hours to bird the Back River Waste
Management area.  Construction has the entrance area in chaos.  I could not
get in to the nature trail area there.  However, I had fun birding down at
Bread-and-Cheese Creek and the nearby marshy pools.  Highlights included
Green Heron, Greater and Lesser Yellowlegs, Least and Semipalmated
Sandpipers, Solitary Sandpiper (four of them), Wilson's Snipe, Bobwhite
(two of them), a singing Marsh Wren (my first of the year), and a singing
Orchard Oriole.  The only warbler was oneYellow-rumped.  Common gulls were
present (Laughing, Great Black-backed, Ring-billed, and Herring).  Only one
Bonaparte's Gull lingered in a sewage clarifier.  Across the highway from
the waste management area, off Diamond Point Road, where one can walk
through a field to view the water, I saw several Caspian Terns among the
gulls, along with two Spotted Sandpipers.  On my way back to town, I
stopped in at Cylburn arboretum.  It was already late in the morning, but I
still enjoyed wonderful looks at Ovenbirds, Wood Thrush, and several
Veeries.  

Does anyone know how long the construction at Back River WMA is going to
last?

--- Don Burggraf ---

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