Acting on a tip I went to the "Recycle Pond", where Jeff Shenot had seen 
a Black-necked Stilt - unheard-of in PG Co. - Friday am. At 4 pm. the 
same day the Stilt was still there, feeding actively on a narrow margin 
of exposed mud.

This am (Sun.) at 9 the Stilt was gone, replaced by an also-unusual - 
tho' not nearly so for PG Co - adult Little Blue Heron. With it were a 
late hen Ring-necked Duck, 2 Spotted Sandpipers, 2 L Y'legs, a Solitary 
S'piper, 2 Bank Swallows, 2 Tree Swallows, an Osprey, and numerous Black 
Vultures circling in disappointment over the adjacent land-fill being 
closed for Sunday.

The question is, were those 2 unusual birds there on Sat., the day of 
the May Count? As luck would have it, no one was assigned to this area 
and no one seems to have been at the site on that day.

This pond is so-called from being close to and easily visible from the 
public Re-cycling Center on Brown Station Rd, opposite the entrance to 
the county landfill, n. of Upper Marlboro. The pond itself has no actual 
re-cycling function.

Fred Fallon
Bowie