Good day fellow birders,
Today there has been a Gadwall hanging around all day at Lake Redington (at the Patuxent Research Refuge's Visitor Center in Laurel). I first spotted it at 9 am with a group of Mallards along the far shore, visible from the patio of the visitor center. It was still out there at 2 pm but  several hundred Can Geese often hid the bird. Only other ducks were Am. Black Ducks.
 
Also had a good sparrow day, all found among the high grass and cattails at the sediment pond next to the Loop Trail. Saw Song, Swamp, White-throats, Field, Am. Tree Sparrows and DE Juncos.
 
Steve Noyes
Vol. Naturalist
National Wildlife Visitor Center
Patuxent Research Refuge



Steve Noyes, Beltsville, PG County, MD    

"One touch of Nature makes the whole world kin"  ......W.Shakespeare