With no rain here in the past two weeks water levels at the lakes and ponds are down. I checked the north end of Liberty Lake where there are now mud flats just north of the Route 140 bridge. I visited the New Windsor wetlands where the main pond is completely dry. I also stopped at the Westminster Airport for another unsuccessful look for grasspipers but there was a Savannah Sparrow singing from the fence along Meadow Branch Road, the first I have ever found at that site in summer.

North Liberty Lake:
Wood Duck  2 medium-sized young
Black Duck  1, unusual at this time of year
Mallard  4
Great Blue Heron  1
Great Egret  1
Green Heron  2
Killdeer  9
Spotted Sandpiper  3, two adults and one immature
Greater Yellowlegs  1
Lesser Yellowlegs  1
Least Sandpiper  3
Pectoral Sandpiper  1
Kingfisher  1 female
Kingbird  2 with an active nest
Tree, Cliff, and Barn Swallows are still active also

New Windsor wetlands:
Mallard  4
Great Blue Heron  1
Willow Flycatcher  5, including three singing
Kingbird  4

New Windsor sewage ponds:
Wood Duck  2

--
Bob Ringler 
Eldersburg MD