Hi all --

We decided to take advantage of the *slightly* cooler weather and check a 
couple of local shorebird spots for early migrants. We started at
Tridelphia 
Lake, parking at Tridelphia Lake Rd. on the Montgomery Co. side, then 
walking the Nature Trail up to the flats. Actually, water levels were
higher 
than we expected, with not a lot of flats exposed. However the edge of the 
lake had good habitat with some shorebirds. Unexpected was quite a bit 
of land bird activity.

 Afterwards we went to Rocky Gorge, parking on the downstream Howard 
Co. side and walking in to the extensive grassy flats near the bridge. We 
did not explore upstream of the bridge nor downstream around the bend 
due to time constraints.

Birds of interest:

Tridelphia: (all birds on Montgomery Co. side as best we could 
determine)

Wood Duck  2
Killdeer  8-10
Solitary Sandpiper  6
Spotted Sandpiper  2
Lesser Yellowlegs  1
Semipalmated Sandpiper   10
Least Sandpiper  20+
unidentified peeps  ~12 (far upstream)
YELLOW-BILLED CUCKOO  4 (very vocal, brief views)
Eastern Wood Pewee  1
Acadian Flycatcher  2
Wood Thrush  1
Scarlet Tanager   1 (female)
Red-eyed Vireo  2
Ovenbird  3 (family party, 2 juvs)
Eastern Towhee  2

Brown's Bridge: (all on Howard Co. side)

Green Heron 1 immature
Killdeer  30+
Least Sandpiper  8-10

(no sign of the Pec Sands reported earlier but we did not do this area 
exhaustively)

Gail Mackiernan and Barry Cooper
Colesville, MD







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