Folks

Intending to head out into Allen's Fresh to see what the recent weather brought in (and also look for rails), I found a Sedge Wren singing on private property that I have access to.  The property is also my canoe launching location.  This species is still in safe date ( to 9/20), so could represent a nesting species - not a migrant.  This is my second Sedge Wren in the county (first was Oct. 3, 99 that Jim Stasz found).  I will return tomorrow with Gwen in the morning since this is a county bird for her, and I did not have the big camera/lens.  

The Sedge Wren gives me a year close out on wrens, and maybe #205 or 6 for the not so big year.   I have to see if I counted the Cackling Goose we had in February before the AOU split it from Canada Goose.  There is still four more months to go, but fall migration had better really help.  

I have been looking for shorebirds, and so far have only found two Spotted Sandpipers.  The mitigation ponds on Hawthorne Road are grown over, and I have missed the tide cycle at Mattawoman and Allen's Fresh.  Tomorrow I will try again after I hopefully relocate the Sedge Wren for Gwen.  .  

I did find 12-15 Great Egret at the Mattawoman Environmental Area on August 5, about a dozen Wood Ducks, a few late singing songbirds, but not much else.  The waders are starting to move.  I just need to be in the right place at the right time - like when the Sedge Wren started singing.  

Good birding.

George