Birds at John Brown Rd. Turf Farm

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It was a slow day at Rock Creek (five warbler spp., all but Redstart single-
tons) so we headed over to Quen Anne Co. and the turf farm on John Brown
Rd. to try and change our luck. They had been irrigating and there were lots
of birds:

Killdeer (estimate 100)
American Golden Plover (8)
Buff-breasted Sandpiper (1)
Pectoral Sandpiper (4)
Least Sandpiper (7)
MARBLED GODWIT (1)

We also had a bird in distant flight only which looked like a Reeve, but
we could not locate it on the ground (there are a lot of swales and ditches).

I imagine Marbled Godwit is a nice country record, for you county listers.

We then went over to the Ridgeley Sewage Works to look for Bairds but no joy
here -- only Killdeer and a few Least SPs.

Maybe that cold front will come through *tomorrow*!

Cheers, Gail Mackiernan
gail@umdd.umd.edu

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