I visited Sandy Point SP today from about 1:30 to 3:30, not having  seen 
Kye Jenkins' post about the Baird's, and found a somewhat different  mix of 
birds. It was windy but at least it was not raining. Another birder I  spoke 
with had heard about the Baird's, but we did not see it. A single BRANT  was 
on the grass near the small boat launch, looking very domesticated. The only 
 shorebirds were 4 BLACK-BELLIED PLOVER and one DUNLIN. There was a nice 
adult  LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULL on the southern end of the beach and a few 
good  sparrows around the edge areas. Some of the notables:
 
BRANT - 1
Black Duck - 1
BLACK-BELLIED PLOVER - 4
DUNLIN - 1
Laughing Gull - 70
Ring-billed Gull - 20
Herring Gull - 25
LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULL - 1 adult
Great Black-backed Gull - 50
Caspian Tern - 4
Royal Tern - 3
Eastern Phoebe - 1
Ruby-crowned Kinglet - 4
Gray Catbird - 1 (marsh trail)
Yellow-rumped Warbler - 25
Field Sparrow - 2
Song Sparrow - 5
White-throated Sparrow - 15
White-crowned Sparrow - 2 imm. (FOS)
Dark-eyed Junco - 8 (FOS)
 
Joel Martin
Catonsville, MD