A bit earlier this AM at the same site, I missed the N Waterthrushes, 
but did hear a Prothonotary W, and see a Gnatcatcher gathering nesting 
material from a tent caterpillar tent. Otherwise much the same, but not 
quite as many shorebirds were visible to me.

Fred Fallon
Bowie

Fred Shaffer wrote:

> There are six species of shorebirds at Schoolhouse Pond feeding on the 
> mudflats.  This included 5 Greater Yellowlegs, 2 Lesser Yellowlegs, 9 Solitary 
> Sandpipers, 9 Least Sandpipers, and 1 Killdeer.  The Solitary Sandpipers were 
> especially vocal, occasionally flying out and over the marshy vegetation.  
> There easily could have been more shorebirds in the grass/vegetation along 
> the mudflats adjacent to the pond.  Other birds today included 2 Yellow 
> Warblers, 2 Northern Waterthrush, 3 Osprey and 1 immature Bald Eagle.  
> 
> Fred Shaffer
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