Hello all This morning Pat & I did a little birding in Augusta County . First stop was Smith's pond where we only found 2 Great Blue Heron's , 3 Green Heron's & 6 Wood Duck plus the Boy Scout Camp had 1 Great Blue & 1 Green Heron . We moved on & went to the Stuarts Draft & Lyndhurst areas . Below is what we found . STP Great Egret --1 Spotted Sandpiper -- 1 Quillin's Great Blue -- 1 Great Egret -- 1 Green Heron -- 8 Wood Duck -- 10 Mallard -- 75+ Hooded Merganser -- 1 Juv. Killdeer -- 25+ Greater Yellowlegs -- 1 Solitary -- 2 Spotted -- 1 Least -- 2 Pectoral -- 2 Bobolink -- 10+ McCune's Great Blue -- 2 Great Egret -- 1 Wood Duck -- 45 + -- Most were juv . Bells Lane Great Blue -- 1 Green Heron -- 3 Wood Duck -- 1 We ended up with 2 peak counts & 1 early fall date for our County . Green Heron -- 15 total , Wood Duck -- 62 total & Hooded Merganser as an early fall date . Not bad for 3 hours of bird watching .Happy birding to all. Pat & Allen Larner Staunton You are subscribed to VA-BIRD. To post to this mailing list, simply send email to va-bird@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe, send email to va-bird-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'unsubscribe' in the Subject field.