This afternoon Bill Ellis checked the shorebird flock at Liberty Lake. The water level of the lake continues to go down and the mud flats have increased in the area a half mile south of the Route 140 bridge. Birds seen today:

Canada Goose  150
Wood Duck  1, Carroll Co. only
Mallard  4
Great Blue Heron  3
Great Egret  2
Bald Eagle  1 immature, Baltimore Co. only
GOLDEN PLOVER  1 molting adult, Carroll Co. only
Semipalmated Plover  1, Carroll Co. only
Killdeer  31
Solitary Sandpiper  4
Lesser Yellowlegs  22
Semipalmated Sandpiper  1, Carroll Co. only
Least Sandpiper  78
Pectoral Sandpiper  7


--
Bob Ringler 
Eldersburg MD