Yesterday I birded Washington County with my brothers Mike and Tom. We 
started out at Blairs Valley Lake where the passerines were especially 
active and then we spent most of the rest of the day looking for 
arriving waterfowl. An impromptu hawk watch at Fort Frederick SP was 
pretty busy and it was hard to stop because we felt like a flyover 
Golden Eagle or Northern Goshawk was almost a matter of time. It was 
enjoyable and interesting to see the Red-taileds moving through, about 
one every five minutes.

Our highlights:

Blairs Valley Lake:

Killdeer     10
Lesser Yellowlegs     1
Pectoral Sandpiper     3
Black-capped Chickadee     1http://www.flickr.com/photos/35144142@N04/5135535552/
Golden-crowned Kinglet     5     My closeout.
Cedar Waxwing     127 - checked for Bohemians!
Fox Sparrow (Red)     3     Mine and Tom's FOS
White-crowned Sparrow (Eastern)     1
Rusty Blackbird     13
Purple Finch     6
Pine Siskin     2


Fort Frederick SP--Big Pool

Gadwall     6
Bufflehead     1
Common Loon     1     Seen during the hawk watch, flying extremely high over the river, heading south.
Double-crested Cormorant     22   Also seen on the hawk watch. Extremely high.
Osprey     1
Bald Eagle     3
Sharp-shinned Hawk     1
Cooper's Hawk     2
Red-shouldered Hawk     1
Red-tailed Hawk     10
diurnal raptor sp.     1
American Coot     4
gull sp.     1
Rock Pigeon     4
Common Raven     2


Boonsboro WWTP:

NORTHERN SHOVELER - 1 female

Antietam National Battlefield:

American Kestrel     1
Horned Lark     1
American Pipit     2
Chipping Sparrow     40
White-crowned Sparrow     4
Eastern Meadowlark     3

Location:     Weverton (Frederick County)

Common Merganser     13
Double-crested Cormorant     2
Black Vulture     105     Apparently were taking flight off of a roost, storming into the sky from the treeline. Probably more. Sets the new high count in eBird (previous high was 70 by Jim Stasz in 1997)
Turkey Vulture     66
Red-tailed Hawk     1


Location:     Kershner's Pond (Frederick County)

Canada Goose     450   Most were flying off as we arrived.
American Black Duck     53
Mallard     8
Ring-necked Duck     2
Ruddy Duck     13
Great Blue Heron     1
American Coot     1

I'm also posting to say that I've almost tied Mark Hoffman in total ticks. He chased the Say's Phoebe on Friday because he wanted to stay one ahead of me.

Rob Ostrowski
Crofton, MD