With Keith Costley I checked the shorebirds at Liberty Lake today. The
lake continues to drop. There is very little mud remaining north of the
Route 140 bridge but there were a lot of shorebirds there on the Baltimore
County side. South of the bridge the birds were scattered over a wide area
downstream on both sides of the lake. Our totals were:
Canada Goose 73
Great Blue Heron 1
Great Egret 3
Green Heron 2
Bald Eagle 5 or 6
Semipalmated Plover 2, Baltimore only
Killdeer 16
Spotted Sandpiper 2, Carroll only
Lesser Yellowlegs 6
Semipalmated Sandpiper 155
Least Sandpiper 35
Pectoral Sandpiper 9
Phoebe 1, Carroll only
Gnatcatcher 1, Carroll only
Black-throated Green Warbler 1, Baltimore only
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Bob Ringler
Eldersburg MD |