The Hollo Road pond held 3 Semipalmated Sandpipers, 3 Least Sandpipers, a Greater Yellowlegs, 4 Lesser Yellowlegs, 5 Killdeer, and a 'fly-by' Double-crested Cormorant.
The flooded field at Richmond Road and Frutchey Hill Road continued to decrease in size, but held a Wood Duck, one Lesser Yellowlegs, 4 Least Sandpipers, a Killdeer, and a Semipalmated Plover.
Two Solitary Sandpipers were in the flooded field just south of there near Glover Road.
The Newburg Road retention pond produced a Great Blue Heron, a Lesser Yellowlegs, a Solitary Sandpiper, and a Spotted Sandpiper. The fairly pale adult Red-tailed Hawk that's been in that area for most of the summer was perched on the fence surrounding the pond.
A group of 29 Killdeer were also present in the field next to the pond.
Back home, I sat on the patio counting 26 Chimney Swifts zipping overhead when I noticed a bird land atop one of the neighbors' spruce trees. It was a Merlin!
A Blue Jay flew up next to it and started harassing it until it flew off to the east.
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