At Spencer Hardy's suggestion, Wayne and I visited the Tigertown Rd. Beaver Pond last night (Saturday) at dusk, and saw 3 Solitary Sandpipers and one Semi-Palmated Sandpiper, and 3 mallards.  This AM (Sunday) we went back to find the Semi-Palmated in great light, and 2 Solitaries.  In addition, A Great Blue Heron flew around,  and a Kingfisher was heard. Then there seemed to be a lot of chipping, and a flock of mixed warblers and chickadees seemed to be everywhere. They stayed maybe 1/2 hour, and suddenly it was quiet again. I'm sure we missed many that were way off in the pine trees.

Warblers:

3 Magnolia-imm or F

1 Chestnut-sided

1-2 Pine

1 Yellow -female/immature (I think. It looked a bit like the Yellow-Crowned Warbler I saw there last year, but wishful thinking, probably).

2 Black-throated Green

Plus

3-5 Red-eyed Vireos (singing, of course)

1 Phoebe

1 Veery -juvi, pretty sure

1 White-breasted Nuthatch

8-12 Chickadees

1 Mallard-f/imm

2 Hooded Mergansers-immature

A Falcon flew over, and it was interesting to see the Plover flatten itself out- it looked like a rock, and stayed that way for a while. Good strategy!

Will try to post photos, plus some from a Runnemede group walk from Saturday AM.

Cynthia Crawford

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