Plucked from the Virginia list.  

Rob Hilton
Silver Spring

Subject: Shorebirds in DC and Black-billed Cuckoo (Extralimital)
From: Steve Hersey <sherseydc AT mac.com>
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 2009 13:52:28 -0400

Since I still cannot post to MDOsprey I'm posting here - I think it  
might be of interest at least to NOVA birders to be on the lookout for  
all the shorebirds that are suddenly popping up in the area.

I spent a couple hours at Kenilworth Aquatic Gardens in DC and had a  
good assortment of shorebirds as well as a Black-billed Cuckoo that cu- 
cu-cu-cu'd at me a few times.  I finally got on it right as it decided  
to fly deeper into the woods, never had a good view but definitely an  
unmistakable call. I didn't see the Pectoral Sandpiper that was  
reported here yesterday, and missed the juvenile Little Blue Heron  
that was reported at Kingman Lake in DC, but had a good (yet extremely  
buggy) early morning.  Now off on this murky day to Violette's Lock to  
search for the Tricolored Heron that was there a couple days ago -  
maybe it'll cross the river into Fairfax County.

Cheers,
Steve Hersey
Washington, DC

Location:     Kenilworth Aquatic Gardens - Kenilworth Park
Observation date:     7/28/09
Number of species:     23

Canada Goose     2
Wood Duck     4
Mallard     2
Great Blue Heron     3
Great Egret     4
Killdeer     7
Spotted Sandpiper     2
Solitary Sandpiper     3  (apparently don't understand the "solitary"  
part...)
Lesser Yellowlegs     1
Least Sandpiper     4
Black-billed Cuckoo     1
Belted Kingfisher     1
Eastern Phoebe     2
Eastern Kingbird     2
Warbling Vireo     1
Northern Rough-winged Swallow     3
American Robin     30
Gray Catbird     2
Northern Mockingbird     5
Northern Cardinal     4
Red-winged Blackbird     8
Common Grackle     5
American Goldfinch     1