After a very successful day on Saturday finding shorebirds in surrounding counties, I searched a few spots in Howard County this morning. Nothing unusual but a few shorebirds have returned.
Tar Bay Dr & Oceania D r Pond, Jessup
Solitary Sandpiper 1
Least Sandpiper 2
Fulton Pond
Killdeer 8
Browns Bridge Rd (The water is much lower and quite a bit of good shorebird habitat).
Killdeer 14
Spotted Sandpiper 2
Solitary Sandpiper 2
Also 4 Cliff Swallows appear to be nesting under the bridge.
Joe Hanfman
Columbia, MD |