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Birds at Liberty Lake 9/2/07

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Bob Ringler

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Sun, 2 Sep 2007 22:10:30 +0000

   I ventured to the Liberty Watershed this morning in search of shorebirds. The lake is down five or six feet and the upper end of the lake is now about a mile south of its normal location when full. Access is difficult and I went in by a trail from Old Westminster Pike.
   Many shorebirds were on the mud of the exposed lake bed. Unfortunately while I was studying them a Sharp-shinned Hawk scattered the flock in all directions and most were not seen again. Before the birds scattered I counted or estimated the following numbers:

Canada Goose  48
Mallard  1
Great Blue Heron  1
Great Egret  2
Semipalmated Plover  4
Killdeer  25
Solitary Sandpiper  3
Lesser Yellowlegs  5
Least Sandpiper  75
Pectoral Sandpiper  7
Kingfisher  2

Other peeps may have been present but I did not get a chance to study all of them.

Along the way there were the following land birds:

Pewee  1 heard
Unidentified Empidonax  1
Phoebe  3
Red-eyed Vireo  2
Red-breasted Nuthatch  1 heard
Chestnut-sided Warbler  1, my first of the year
Magnolia Warbler  1
Blackburnian Warbler  1, also my first of the year
Redstart  1
Scarlet Tanager  1

--
Bob Ringler 
Eldersburg MD