On Thursday evening I went to Tanyard for half an hour and was able to get:

Purple Martin 
King Rail-seen and heard
Lesser Black backed Gull- Adult in breeding plumage
25 Boneparte's gulls
5 Dunlin
10 Lesser Yellowlegs
20 Greater Yellowlegs
12 Capian Terns

I also did some birding this morning at Tuckahoe and then went down to Tanyard
Tuckahoe:
10- Louisana Waterthrush
2-Pine Warblers
1-Prothonatory 
1-Black and White
1-Worm Eating
1- Parula
1-Yellow Palm
5-Common Yellowthroats
10-Yellow-rumped Warblers
1-Yellow Warbler

2-Red-shouldered hawks
3-Coopers Hawks
2-Red-breasted Nuthatches
23-flyover Common Loons
1-flyover Red-throated Loon
2-Glossy Ibis in Tuckahoe Lake
3-Rusty Blackbirds
25-Double-crested Cormorants
2-Snow Geese
5-Gnatcatchers
1-Screech Owl

Rte 309 Ponds 
2-Glossy Ibis (possibly the same birds)
1-Snow Goose
3-lesser yellowlegs
1-wilson's snipe
4-Greater Yellowlegs

Tanyard
20-Greater Yellowlegs
25-Lesser Yellowlegs
3-Least Sandpipers
1-Pectoral Sandpiper
and everything seen on thurs. with the exception of the rail.

Zach Baer
Centreville, MD



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