Hi all. We got home Saturday from vacation in Massachusetts and Maine (lifer Atlantic Puffin and Black Guillemot!) and I needed to get a Maryland birding fix bad. There were hundreds of shore birds feeding in low tide at Pickering Creek, including lots of SB Dowitchers, Stilt Sandpipers and peeps. Thought I also had a Western Sandpiper, but was not 100 percent certain of ID.
Good Birding!
Warren & Lisa Strobel, Annapolis, MD� � � � �Pickering Creek Audubon Center, Talbot, US-MDJul 22, 2012 1:35 PM - 2:50 PM
Protocol: Traveling
1.0 mile(s)
Comments:� � low tide, nice assemblage of shorebirds
21 species
Great Blue Heron� 1
Great Egret� 3
Snowy Egret� 16
Cattle Egret� 1
Osprey� 2
Killdeer� 9
Greater Yellowlegs� X
Lesser Yellowlegs� X
Semipalmated Sandpiper� X
Least Sandpiper� X
Stilt Sandpiper� 4
Short-billed Dowitcher� 23
Least Tern� 26� � Mostly adults, 5-6 first-year birds
Forster's Tern� 1
Chimney Swift� 2
Northern Rough-winged Swallow� 1
Purple Martin� 8
Eastern Bluebird� 1
Common Yellowthroat� 2
Field Sparrow� 1
American Goldfinch� 2
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