Date: Tue, 2 May 2000 18:31:56 -0400 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Arlene Ripley Subject: Flag Ponds, Calvert County 5/2 Comments: To: MD-SMAS-GENERAL@LIST.AUDUBON.ORG Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Flag Ponds Park, Calvert County 5/2 A pretty amazing morning spent at Flag Ponds today. New arrivals since last Friday were: At the beach ponds: ~150 Least Sandpipers 20 Semipalmated Sandpipers 5 Solitary Sandpipers (including one in the swamp) 9 Semipalmated Plovers 1 Willet 7 Lesser Yellowlegs Along the trails: 4 Acadian Flycatchers 1 Veery 1 House Wren 1 Blue-winged Warbler 1 Magnolia Warbler 6 Black-throated Blue Warblers 5 American Redstarts 1 Yellow-throated Vireo 3 Swamp Sparrows Other highlights: 3 Common Moorhens on Duncan's Pond 7 Great Crested Flycatchers 26 Red-eyed Vireos 41 (!) Gray Catbirds 26 Northern Parulas 3 Black-throated Green 4 Yellow-rumped 11 Yellow-throated 5 Pine 2 Prairie 1 Palm (yellow) 7 Black-and-white 2 Worm-eating 6 Ovenbirds 2 Louisiana Waterthrush 1 Kentucky 9 Common Yellowthroat 2 Hooded 91 (!) White-throated Sparrows 1 Summer Tanager Total species: 77 ////// | || aripley@nestbox.com | 0 || http://www.nestbox.com | || || ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================