I ran into JB Churchill and David Yeaney at Blackwater NWR today. I was there from 8:00 - 11:00 am. We saw 2 Hudsonian Godwits, 1 Long-billed Dowitcher, and an American Avocet. They were at pool "5C". We spent most of our time looking at shorebirds. My complete list is below. 






Joe Hanfman 

Columbia, MD 


Location:     Blackwater National Wildlife Refuge 
Observation date:     10/28/09 
Number of species:     52 

Snow Goose     1 
Canada Goose     5000 
American Wigeon     2 
American Black Duck     2 
Mallard     150 
Northern Pintail     300 
Green-winged Teal     50 
Ruddy Duck     125 
American White Pelican     1 
Double-crested Cormorant     20 
Great Blue Heron     4 
Turkey Vulture     4 
Bald Eagle     5 
Northern Harrier     1 
American Kestrel     1 
Merlin     1 
American Coot     3 
Black-bellied Plover     6 
Semipalmated Plover     2 
Killdeer     20 
American Avocet     1 
Greater Yellowlegs     14 
Lesser Yellowlegs     2 
Hudsonian Godwit     2 
Least Sandpiper     1 
Pectoral Sandpiper     4 
Dunlin     150 
Long-billed Dowitcher     1 
Wilson's Snipe     2 
Laughing Gull     200 
Ring-billed Gull     48 
Herring Gull     40 
Great Black-backed Gull     2 
Forster's Tern     14 
Mourning Dove     8 
Belted Kingfisher     1 
Northern Flicker (Yellow-shafted)     2 
Eastern Phoebe     1 
Blue Jay     4 
American Crow     12 
Tree Swallow     10 
Carolina Wren     1 
Eastern Bluebird     12 
Northern Mockingbird     1 
European Starling     36 
Yellow-rumped Warbler (Myrtle)     12 
Palm Warbler (Yellow)     1 
Chipping Sparrow     8 
White-throated Sparrow     6 
Dark-eyed Junco (Slate-colored)     2 
Red-winged Blackbird     150 
Brown-headed Cowbird     4 

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