This morning, in an impoundment on a private section of the Brown 
Station landfill property, I found a COMMON MOORHEN. I viewed the bird 
for a couple minutes, and snapped a quick photo before it disappeared 
into the thick tangle of vegetation: 
http://www.flickr.com/photos/35144142@N04/6019739569/in/photostream

Elsewhere in the county, at Oxon Cove Park along the Potomac, there was 
a nice collection of shorebirds, including:

Semipalmated Sandpiper - 16
Least Sandpiper - 15
Pectoral Sandpiper - 1
Greater Yellowlegs - 1
Spotted Sandpiper - 2
Killdeer - 6

On the mudflats with the shorebirds were also two Caspian Terns - an 
adult and a juvenile. In the past week, I've seen two juvenile Laughing 
Gulls, a juvenile Ring-billed Gull, and a growing number of juvenile 
Least Sandpipers.

Rob Ostrowski
Crofton, MD


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