I looked all over today but had no luck finding the cinnamon hybrid seen 
here yesterday.  Oh well.  I looked about two hours this morning and one 
hour this afternoon, and saw a lot of waterfowl.  It was a nice day again; 
not quite as hectic with park visitors or boat traffic as yesterday, but 
still very busy. I also amused myself by trying to find any migrant 
sparrows or other small passerines in the big ag field (called the "air 
field") at Selby's.  It is good habitat for migrant horned lark, pipit, 
Ammodramus sp. of sparrows, and perhaps longspurs (only rarely).  However, 
it is almost invariably over run with folks on weekends, many with dogs.  
I am a dog owner and lover but wish they would stick to walking their dogs 
closer to the road or trails, instead of way out in the big open middle of 
the field.  I can see why folks would go out there to let their dogs run, 
since its far from people, but that is also why and where the shy migrants 
I was looking for like to rest!

I found several horned larks singing, and thought I heard pipits but can't 
tell the difference when they're in flight - the calls pipits and larks 
make are similar to me.  I was unable to id them visually (too distant).  
I also thought I saw a grasshopper sparrow but it was flushed by a beagle 
as I was attending to my scope.  I could not relocate the bird.  I saw and 
heard several savannah sparrows.  The field was birdy but way too much 
activity today for these birds to stay out in the open long enough for me 
to find and identify them.

But it was a nice day agin, no complaints from me!

Waterfowl seen included my first of season blue-winged teal (two places); 
a lone drake red-breasted merganser; northern shovelor (two places); 
gadwall (two places; getting scarce lately); common merganser (all over); 
blacks, mallards, and pintails all over; green-winged teal (not as many as 
yesterday but still several hundred; all over); Canada Geese (only the  
residents are left); tundra swans (84 in one flock; several others in 
small groups in two other spots); also 3 pied-billed grebes and and 3 d-
crested cormorants.

I also saw first of season tree swallows here, and a single laughing gull 
(probably the same bird I saw yesterday, again - resting with herring 
gulls and ringers).  A few yellowlegs also arrived here yesterday; and I 
had a single fox sparrow at the feeder.

Cheers-

Jeff Shenot
Croom Md