This morning Lisa and I met up with Sandy Farkas and a
friend for another installment of In Search Of The
Clay-colored Sparrow.  We were at the very spot where
Sandy and Dave Sperling had watched it sing yesterday.
 No dice today.  We did see both orioles, the back
part of a (Northern) waterthrush, a Spotted Sandpiper,
and two Green Herons being harassed by assorted black
birds.  After Sandy and friend left, Lisa and I
located two singing male Wilson's Warblers and a male
Blackpoll Warblers.  

We then drove around Hains Point in search of
dark-headed gulls.  None were to be seen, but we did
see a Lesser Yellowlegs, a Solitary Sandpiper, and a
Least Sandpiper in the same rain pool.  Lisa had a
view of the rear end of a singing Nothern Waterthrush.
 Warbling Vireos were sprinkled around the park.  On
our way out of the park, I spied the RUDDY TURNSTONE
sitting on top of the channel-side railing on Ohio
Drive, opposite the tennis court (and so near the
junction with Buckeye Drive).  After a bit, the
turnstone joined two starlings foraging in the wet
grass.  After another bit it flew back to the railing
before taking off in the direction of the channel.  

Rob Hilton
Silver Spring