Folks

While helping Mike Callahan and Jean Artes lead the Nanjemoy Youth Bird Camp I found a Tringa.  My best guess was a Lesser Yellowleg, Tringa flavipes.  The bird flew north to south down Allen's Fresh.  It never sang or stopped.  Perhaps a non-breeder, or a failed breeder.  This bird should be nesting in the tops of evergreen trees in the high north this time of year.  

Mike, Jean, myself, and the nine young students also had a great treat.  While quietly searching one of the barns we found seven Barn Owls.  (Try keeping nine excited kids quiet under this circumstance.) I expect six young and one adult were roosting in one of the barns in our Barn Owl project.   Our total banded birds this year is 16 in three nests.  I plan to put up another box near this box and south of the fresh.  If anyone wants to make a box for the project, please contact me.

Helping with these nine kids was a great treat for me.  A couple have excellent skills, and I am hopeful to find my replacement, besides training the next generation of birders in Charles Co.  

Good atlasing.

George