I took a lunchtime walk at Swan Creek and found a young Mourning Warbler on the trail down to the wetland.  It was not far beyond the signs once you enter the woodland and I marked an X in the road with a tripod leg.  Other migrants in the woodland included a Traill's Flycatcher, a Blackburnian Warbler, and a Baltimore Oriole.  

I couldn't see much in the impoundment, the peeps were far in the back, but there were 3 Semi Plovers, a few Lesser Yellowlegs, and a juvenile Short-billed Dowitcher.  I finally saw the summering Hooded Merganser again after not seeing it since early June.  

I would have posted a little sooner, but, you know, earthquake and all.

Matt Hafner
Forest Hill, MD






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