Birds seen in Carroll County on Sunday, August 22: At Liberty Lake: Great Blue Heron 1 Great Egret 5 Canada Goose 290 Wood Duck 1 Mallard 22 Green-winged Teal 3 arrival Osprey 1 arrival Killdeer 35 Lesser Yellowlegs 8 Solitary Sandpiper 11 Spotted Sandpiper 7 Semipalmated Sandpiper 145 Least Sandpiper 57 Pectoral Sandpiper 4 Ring-billed Gull 4 Cliff Swallow 5 nests with young Westminster Reservoir: Pied-billed Grebe 1 immature arrival Great Blue Heron 1 Great Egret 1 Green Heron 4 Canada Goose 90 Wood Duck 2 Mallard 15 Killdeer 15 Solitary Sandpiper 1 Least Sandpiper 18 In Frederick County at Mason-Dixon Farm: Semipalmated Plover 2 Killdeer 8 Lesser Yellowlegs 4 Solitary Sandpiper 1 Spotted Sandpiper 1 Least Sandpiper 2 Pectoral Sandpiper 12 Short-billed Dowitcher 1 juvenile All birds were in the west pond. Bob Ringler