The weather seemed good for searching for those 
rare-in-Montgomery-county shorebirds, and I found a few along the 
canal.  No Whimbrels, but at Summit Hall Turf Farm there was a flock of 
eight SEMIPALMATED PLOVERS (all-time county high number on eBird), a 
Greater Yellowlegs, and four distant peep (probably Least). At Patton 
Turf Farm there were eight BLACKBELLIED PLOVERS, a Solitary Sandpiper, 
and a Killdeer (making it a three plover day). Also tried the Germantown 
soccerplex pond, but the water level had risen about a foot and all the 
mud flats were underwater.

A welcome sight at Hughes Hollow was a female Hooded Merganser with 12 
young.

Good birding!
Jim Moore
Rockville, Maryland
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