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Bob Ringler

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Sun, 18 May 2008 21:01:41 +0000

   This morning I walked around two areas of the Liberty Watershed. The lake is probably within six inches of being full leaving isolated areas of shorebird habitat at the north end of the lake and in the coves.

North End:
Canada Goose  15
Wood Duck  2, Baltimore only
Mallard  2
Great Blue Heron  1
Green Heron  1
Killdeer  1
Spotted Sandpiper  2
Solitary Sandpiper  1
Tree Swallow  1
Rough-winged Swallow  2
Cliff Swallow  15, collecting mud from the river bank
Barn Swallow  1
Gnatcatcher  1
Yellow Warbler  1, heard only
Yellow-throated Warbler  1, singing on the county line on Glen Falls Road
Pine Warbler  1, heard only
Northern Waterthrush  1, heard only
Yellowthroat  6, heard only
Chat  1, heard only
Orchard Oriole  1, heard only
Baltimore Oriole  1, heard only

Bollinger Mill Road:
Canada Goose  21
Wood Duck  3
Mallard  4
Solitary Sandpiper  10
Pewee  1
Acadian Flycatcher  3
Kingbird  1
Cedar Waxwing  12, including a pair courtship feeding
Parula  1, heard only
Yellow Warbler  1
Black-throated Green Warbler  1, heard only
Blackpoll Warbler  1, heard only, my first of the year locally
Louisiana Waterthrush  1
Yellowthroat  1, heard only
PURPLE FINCH  1, a brown bird, my first of the spring & probably last

--
Bob Ringler 
Eldersburg MD