A Phalarope was reported by Sean Flint and Dan Dawson at Blackwater 
National Wildlife Refuge in Pool 1 on the Wildlife Drive yesterday, May 
16.  A female Red-necked Phalarope was observed today in the same 
location by Dan Dawson, Joshua Stone, and Roger Stone at approximately 
9:00 a.m. and again at noon.  It has been frequenting an area on the 
north side of the impoundment about a hundred yards west of the wildlife 
drive.  Other birds frequenting Pool 1 include Solitary Sandpipers, 
Semipalmated Plovers, Least Sandpipers, Greater and Lesser Yellowlegs, 
Dunlin, Glossy Ibis, Great Egrets, Snowy Egret, Bald Eagle, and a 
Black-bellied Plover. 
Also of interest are a large number of very large carp attempting to 
enter Pool 1 by way of the water control structure that crosses under 
the Wildlife Drive.

Joshua Stone
Royal Oak, MD