I birded the 309 ponds and then moved on to Pickering Creek in hopes of 
phalropes but they were only hopes.  I was able to find several shorebirds 
but nothing spectacular.

Rt. 309 ponds:
30 semipalmated plovers
25 least sandpipers
2 white-rumped sandpipers
2 pectoral sandpipers
5 semipalmated sandpipers
1 lesser yellowlegs
10 killdeer
1 spotted sandpiper
1 green heron
2 wood ducks
4 common species of swallow
northern bobwhite heard

Pickering Creek
60 dunlin
5 white-rumped sandpipers
50 least sandpipers
4 greater yellowlegs
5 lesser yellowlegs
1 pectoral sandpiper
25 semipalmated plovers
15 semipalmated sandpipers
1 solitary sandpiper
3 spotted sandpiper
8 killdeer
6 wood ducks
1 green-winged teal
grasshopper sparrow heard

Zach Baer
Centreville, MD


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