Hi all --

I was out of town this weekend and Barry took the opportunity to go birding without me! But I wanted to post some of the interesting birds he had:

Lilypons, Frederick Co., 4/29

1 American Bittern
2 Virginia Rails
1 Sora
1 Moorhen
1 Coot
1 Hooded Merganser with 8 young
1 Wood Duck with 2 young
2 Great Egrets
4 Little Green Herons
~12 Wilson's Snipe
4 Greater Yellowlegs
3 Lesser Yellowlegs
5 Solitary Sandpipers
1 yellow Warbler
1 Orchard Oriole

Anacostia Wetlands 4/30

1 female TURKEY
Yellow Warblers and Orchard Orioles common

Gail Mackiernan and Barry Cooper
Colesville, MD