May 10th

I spent most of the morning trying to relocate the Neotropic Cormorant without success. I worked back and forth from Weverton to Harpers Ferry. Lots of orioles, Warbling Vireos, swallows, and swifts. At Wverton there were 2 female Red-breasted Mergansers and a Prothonotary Warbler. Driving north on Rt. 67 I had a Great Egret, a Blue Grosbeak, and a Grasshopper Sparrow. Just off Mt. Carmel Church Road there was a Semipalmated Sandpiper in a storm water pond, a county bird for me. To the north along King Road there was 1 Lesser Yellowlegs. Boonsboro WWTP had 3 Least Sandpipers along with 22 Spotted Sandpipers.

May 11th

1 Blackpoll and 1 Black-throated Blue Warbler singing in the yard when I woke up this morning. I decided to head west rather than look for the cormorant again. I stopped at the Hagerstown Center on Route 40 west of town for some breakfast. I decided to first check a pond behind the shopping center, 1 Stilt Sandpiper, county bird! Possibly a first county record. Jim Stasz and Ed Boyd showed up about twenty minutes later. Also at the pond were 2 Blue-winged Teal and a Least Sandpiper.


Hans Holbrook

Hagerstown, MD

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