Hi all,
 
I checked North Beach Marsh in Calvert County today, and had a few nice surprises, the highlight being a juvenile STILT SANDPIPER, and a CLAPPER RAIL hanging out in the channel connecting the marsh to the bay.  Photos can be seen at the link at the bottom.
 
 
Location:     North Beach
Observation date:     9/16/08
Number of species:     21
 
Mallard     32
Northern Shoveler     4
Great Blue Heron     7
Great Egret     12
Snowy Egret     65
Turkey Vulture     2
Clapper Rail     1
Semipalmated Plover     1
Killdeer     3
Semipalmated Sandpiper     8
Least Sandpiper     15
Pectoral Sandpiper     5
STILT SANDPIPER     1
Short-billed Dowitcher     1
Ring-billed Gull     2
Herring Gull     1
Forster's Tern     33
Rock Pigeon     2
Mourning Dove     1
Northern Mockingbird     1
Common Yellowthroat     1
 
This report was generated automatically by eBird v2(http://ebird.org)
 
Good Birding!
Mikey Lutmerding
http://www.flickr.com/photos/mikeycerw/
Lothian, MD