I met up with Jim Stasz and Ed Boyd early this morning to do a full day of Washington county birding.  Despite having a few excellent finds, there were overall very few birds as far an individuals go for the day.  Highlights from a few locations below:

MAY 15, 2005

WASHINGTON COUNTY

Blair's Valley Lake
Wood Duck   1
COMMON MERGANSER   1   female flying around
Solitary Sandpiper   1
Spotted Sandpiper   3
Black-billed Cuckoo   1
Willow Flycatcher   2    calling
Tree Swallow    20
Northern Rough-winged Swallow   2
Barn Swallow   4
Blue-winged Warbler   2
Yellow Warbler   4
Common Yellowthroat   2
Yellow-breasted Chat   2
Orchard Oriole   2
Baltimore Oriole   1

Indian Springs Fishing Pond
COMMON MERGANSER   2   male and female flying around
Yellow-billed Cuckoo   1
OLIVE-SIDED FLYCATCHER   1   flycatching for 20 minutes or so
Blue-winged Warbler   2
NASHVILLE WARBLER   1   same tree as OSFl
Yellow Warbler   1
American Redstart   1
Ovenbird   4
Common Yellowthroat   1
Hooded Warbler   1
WILSON'S WARBLER   1
Baltimore Oriole  12    everywhere

Clear Spring Pond
Least Sandpiper   7
Solitary Sandpiper   1
Spotted Sandpiper   2
Killdeer   2

Roadside birding produced:
Wild Turkey
Broad-winged Hawk
Acadian Flycatcher
Yellow-throated Vireo
Warbling Vireo
Red-eyed Vireo
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
Veery
Northern Parula
Black-throated Green Warbler
Yellow-throated Warbler
Pine Warbler
Prairie Warbler
Blackpoll Warbler
Worm-eating Warbler
Loisiana Waterthrush
Scarlet Tanager
Grasshopper Sparrow
Rose-breasted Grosbeak


FREDERICK COUNTY

Harney Pond
SEMIPALMATED PLOVER   12
Semipalmated Sandpiper  6
Least Sandpiper   160
Lesser Yellowlegs   9
Greater Yellowlegs  1
Solitary Sandpiper   8
SHORT-BILLED DOWITCHER   39 (hendersoni)
MERLIN   1   chasing the shorebirds around


Mike Burchett
Churchville, MD
Harford Co.