Hello all. 

I birded a couple of my usual areas over the last two days.  Spent most of my time near the water looking for random Black Terns and came up empty.  Shorebirds at Swan Creek were also lean due to other activity at the site, but I found some other goodies. 

Highlights:

Fort Armistead (scoping Fort Carroll and surrounding waters):
Species seen on/around/over Ft. Carroll and nearby wharfs: 

Great Blue Heron: 2
Great Egret: 2
Snowy Egret: 3
Little Blue Heron: 3
Black-crowned Night Heron: 1 adult
Double-crested Cormorant: 105+
Ring-billed Gull: 18
Herring Gull: 120+  all age groups represented
Great Black-backed Gull: 55+
Laughing Gull: 24 on the chemical company's wharf
ROYAL TERN: 2  flying east 
Osprey: 2

Swan Creek/Cox Creek Dredge Containment Facility: (Limited Access)

Great Blue Heron: 14  mostly perched above the old wetland
Great Egret: 1 old wetland
Snowy Egret: 2  new wetland
Little Blue Heron: 3 adult, 2 calico and 1 white immature
Green Heron: 2 old wetland
Double-crested Cormorant: 4 old wetland
Canada Goose: 12
Mallard: 16
Wood Duck: 10  far portion of old wetland
aythya sp.: 1  female in the north cell, light was insufficient for id
Ring-billed Gull: 30+
Herring Gull: 110+ mostly in north cell
Great Black-backed Gull: 30+  mostly in north cell
Laughing Gull: 80  loafing in the north cell
Caspian Tern: 66  north cell
Killdeer: 4
Semipalmated Plover: 8  new wetland
Spotted Sanspiper: 2
Lesser Yellowlegs: 1
Semipalmated Sandpiper: 4
Least Sandpiper: 1
peep sp.: 5
Turkey Vulture: 4
Bald Eagle: 1 adult
Osprey: 2
Belted Kingfisher: 2
Cedar Waxwing: 8
Marsh Wren: 1
Eastern Kingbird: 6
Common Yellowthroat: 3
American Redstart: 1 male

Butterflies: 

E. Tiger Swallowtail: 2
Spicebush Swallowtail: 4
Black Swallowtail: 3
Orange Sulphur: 2
Cloudless Sulphur: 1
Buckeye: 5
Northern Broken-Dash: 1
Sachem: 1
Monarch: 6