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["Patricia" <larnersky@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello all
Today after work I did my usual pond checks . Below is what I found . At 
Quillen's pond which is doing its usual drying up & producing mud flats for 
Shorebirds . 

Great Blue -- 1
Great Egret -- 2
Green Heron -- 9
Blue -- winged Teal -- 5
Killdeer -- 8
Greater Yellowlegs -- 1
Lesser Yellowlegs -- 1
Spotted -- 2
Least -- 5
W Snipe -- 4

Groves Pond -- Lyndhurst Rd. just before Quillen's 
Great Blue --1
Blue -- winged Teal -- 4
Black Tern -- 1

STP -- Stuarts Draft Treatment Plant 
Black Tern -- 1

McCune's Pond 
Great Blue -- 1
Wood Duck -- 2
Blue -- winged Teal -- 31

Bells Lane 
Great Blue -- 1
Wood Duck -- 5

Smith's Pond -- Swoope 
Great Blue -- 2
Wood Duck -- 13
Green -- winged Teal -- 3
Killdeer -- 2
Spotted Sandpiper -- 4

Riley's Farm Pond 
Great Egret -- 1
in a plowed field over looking Riley's pond there were Killdeer --46
Semipalmated Sandpiper -- 3
Horned Lark -- 30 +

As I was leaving Smith's pond in an open field I observed 5 Wild Turkey feeding 
on grass seed & bugs .

After work tomorrow Pat & I will be heading for the Eastern Shore . Ned stake 
out the Upland's & Sharp -tailed !!!!

Allen Larner
Staunton





































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