Dropped by the pond at Western Regional Park to check out the front pond.  The water level is dropping and suitable shorebird habitat is starting to emerge.   Species noted at the park follow:

Red-shouldered Hawk - 1
Spotted Sandpiper - 2
Solitary Sandpiper - 3
Greater Yellowlegs - 1
Mourning Dove - 3
Red-bellied Woodpecker - x
Downy Woodpecker - 2
Hairy Woodpecker - 1
Northern Flicker - 2
Eastern Wood-Pewee - 4
Acadian Flycatcher - 1
Great Crested Flycatcher - 2
Eastern Kingbird - 2
Red-eyed Vireo - x
Blue Jay - x
Horned Lark - 1
Tree Swallow - 3
Barn Swallow - 4
Carolina Chickadee - 3
Tufted Titmouse - 2
White-breasted Nuthatch - 1
Carolina Wren - 1
Eastern Bluebird - 3
Swainson's Thrush - 4
Wood Thrush - 1
Gray Catbird - 3
European Starling - 5
Northern Parula - 2
Yellow-rumped Warbler - x
Black-throated Green Warbler - 1
Black-and-white Warbler - 1
Ovenbird - 3
Common Yellowthroat - x
Yellow-breasted Chat - 1
Scarlet Tanager - 6
Eastern Towhee - 4
Field Sparrow - 3
Northern Cardinal - 4
Indigo Bunting - x
Red-winged Blackbird - 6
Brown-headed Cowbird - 2
House Finch - 2
American Goldfinch - 1

Bill Hill
Glenwood, Md.