I spent most of the day counting in Fairmount WMA and vicinity yesterday. It has a decidedly different flavor than what most experienced for the May Count. At least one of each species was seen unless noted as heard. 106 species. Most of the shorebirds were in the impoundment at the WMA, others were in fields or on Long Point off Colbourn Creek.

Canada Goose  17
Black Duck  9
Mallard  11
Green-winged Teal  6
Bobwhite  6 heard
Brown Pelican  3, one off the WMA and two over Rumbley
DC Cormorant  12
Great Blue Heron  2
Great Egret  11
Snowy Egret  13
Little Blue Heron  2
Green Heron  1
Glossy Ibis  5
Black Vulture  5, all at the landfill
Turkey Vulture  50
Osprey  16
Harrier  2, a pair
Red-tailed Hawk  1
Clapper Rail  11 heard
Virginia Rail  5 heard
Black-bellied Plover  13, mostly in fields
Semipalmated Plover  67
Killdeer  7 heard
Greater Yellowlegs  5
Willet  12
Lesser Yellowlegs  2
Spotted Sandpiper  1
Semipalmated Sandpiper  30
Least Sandpiper  24
White-rumped Sandpiper  1
Dunlin  1,105
Short-billed Dowitcher  17
Laughing Gull  2,740 mostly in fields and at the landfill
Ring-billed Gull  36
Herring Gull  290, mostly at the landfill
Great Black-back  1 at Rumbley
Forster's Tern  16
Mourning Dove  18
Yellow-billed Cuckoo  1 heard, my first of the year
Chuck-will's-widow  3 heard
Chimney Swift  15
Ruby-throated Hummingbird  2
Kingfisher  1, very unexpected at Frenchtown surrounded by salt marsh
Red-bellied Woodpecker  2 heard
Downy Woodpecker  1 heard
Flicker  2
Pileated Woodpecker  1 heard
Pewee  6 heard
Acadian Flycatcher  1 heard
Great Crested Flycatcher  19
Kingbird  11
White-eyed Vireo  7 heard
Red-eyed Vireo  30 heard
Blue Jay  5
American Crow  18
Fish Crow  40, mostly at the landfill
Horned Lark  1 heard singing
Purple Martin  40
Tree Swallow  16
Barn Swallow  55
Carolina Chickadee  10
Titmouse  6
Brown-headed Nuthatch  1 heard
Carolina Wren  42 heard
House Wren  9 heard
Marsh Wren  27 heard
Gnatcatcher  8
Bluebird  1
Wood Thrush  4 heard
Robin  31
Catbird  13
Mockingbird  16
Brown Thrasher  2 heard
Starling  40
Parula  1 heard singing at Rumbley where certainly a migrant
Yellow Warbler  17
Magnolia Warbler  1, my first of the year
Pine Warbler  32 heard
Prairie Warbler  7 heard
Blackpoll Warbler  2 heard, my first of the year, one near Westover and one at the WMA
Redstart  2, one adult male at Frenchtown and one heard near Manokin
Worm-eating Warbler  1 heard
Ovenbird  29 heard
Northern Waterthrush  1
Yellowthroat  68
Yellow-breated Chat  3 heard, my first of the year
Summer Tanager  8 heard
Towhee  4 heard
Chipping Sparrow  37
Field Sparrow  14
Savannah Sparrow  1
Grasshopper Sparrow  7, mostly near Westover
Seaside Sparrow 59
Song Sparrow  19
Cardinal  30
Blue Grosbeak  22
Indigo Bunting  40
Red-winged Blackbird  130
Meadowlark  2
Common Grackle  45
Boat-tailed Grackle  16
Cowbird  8
Orchard Oriole  20
House Finch  7
Goldfinch  4
House Sparrow 55

--
Bob Ringler 
Eldersburg MD