The Martins Creek Environmental Preserve produced 2 Double-crested Cormorants, a Northern Yellow Warbler, and a Common Yellowthroat; and the nearby Martins Creek PPL boat launch area held a Northern Flicker, 2 Blue-gray Gnatcatchers, 2 Gray Catbirds, and a Northern Yellow Warbler.
Up at Lake Minsi, I found 2 Wood Ducks, a Spotted Sandpiper, a Common Loon, 10 Double-crested Cormorants, 4 Ospreys, 31 Tree Swallows and 9 Barn Swallows, 19 Purple Martins, 2 Eastern Bluebirds, and a Yellow-rumped Warbler.
I made my first-ever visit to Twin Lakes County Park. It was pretty quiet birdwise, but I did find a Ruby-throated Hummingbird, a Gray Catbird, and a Louisiana Waterthrush
The Totts Gap Conservation Area held 2 Ospreys, an American Kestrel, 6 Barn Swallows, and an Eastern Meadowlark, but apparently no Bobolinks had arrived yet.
A check of East Bangor Dam produced 2 Canada Geese with 6 goslings in tow, 6 Chimney Swifts, a Double-crested Cormorant, an Osprey, a Cooper's Hawk, 2 Barn Swallows, a Northern Yellow Warbler, and a Virginia Rail that called once while I was there.
The good number of shorebirds at the Christian Springs Road pond included one Killdeer, 25 Lesser Yellowlegs, one Greater Yellowlegs, and my first Least Sandpiper of the year.
The flooded area by the Route 191 and Hollo Road intersection held 11 Lesser Yellowlegs, 2 Greater Yellowlegs, and a Solitary Sandpiper.
Green Pond produced the following: 40 continuing Snow Geese, one Spotted and one Solitary Sandpiper, a Green Heron, a Cooper's Hawk, around 35 Barn, 30 Tree, and 10 Northern Rough-winged Swallows, a Northern House Wren, and 3 White-throated Sparrows.
Another Spotted Sandpiper was seen at the Newburg Road retention pond.
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