As part of the crowd that missed the Tropical Kingbird today, we went to 
Blackwater late in the afternoon. Birds of possible interest were a pair of 
EASTERN MEADOWLARKS along the road perhaps a half mile east of the start 
of Wildlife Drive and a pair of GREATER YELLOWLEGS flying over Wildlife Drive 
toward the Visitors' Center. 

We saw three AMERICAN PELICANS. There were several groups of large white 
birds huddling down for the night, more of which may have been pelicans but 
many of which were swans. Large flocks of SNOW GEESE began flying around 
at sunset.

Leslie Starr & Joe Turner
Baltimore & Port Republic