Greetings.  I want to apologize for a very late post, but I've had no computer for the last couple of weeks and have been unable to post conveniently.  I still have no computer.

Last weekend I birded a lot around PG (the Fall count was Sunday), and I had great luck with shorebirds at the landfill.  As noted, the water level is low and the habitat has improved as a result.  Best shorebird was a Baird's, but I had a high count for Stilt's.  Also, Sunday at home I was letting our puppy out for a pee break at dawn, and had an Am. Golden-Plover flying along the river past our house.  It was vocalizing loudly from ~ 150-200 feet up, and was a great new species for our yard list!  I had the following shorebirds at the landfill:

Killdeer  11
Spotted Sandpiper  2
Solitary Sand.  1
Greater Yellowlegs  4
Lesser Yell.  4
Semipalmated Sand.  4
Western Sand.  5
Least Sand.  31
Baird's Sand.  1
Pectoral Sand.  8
Stilt Sand.  14

For the Fall count I covered Patuxent River Park at Jug Bay and some other areas in Upper Marlboro, and birded between 6:30-4, with about 6.3 actual hours birding.  I had 92 species and 2663 individuals but only had 11 species of warbler.  Migrant landbird numbers seemed low, but after the great week that preceeded us it was not a surprise, given the long period of stable weather.  Many of the warblers seen were adults, which I heard other birders note as well.  Best views I had were a prolonged view of an adult Cape May male, a beautiful Yellow-bellied Flycatcher, plus the Baird's (well photographed).

Cheers!
Jeff Shenot
Croom MD