Date: Mon, 5 Jun 2000 10:47:32 EDT Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Jim Stasz Subject: Post Pelagic Birding, Lower Eastern Shore, 5/5 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi Folks! After the pelegic trip from Lewes Marshall Iliff & I went down to Ocean City. There wasn't much at the Inlet [we were hoping for Purple Sandpiper]. Skimmer Island had: ~150 Royal Terns, 150 Common Terns and 120 Black Skimmers in the nesting colony. A pair of adult SANDWICH TERN were observed copulating. Other birds included 110 Double-crested Cormorant, 2 Great Egret, 2 Cattle Egret, 2 Black-crowned Night-Heron, 3 Canada Goose, 10 Mallard, 28 American Oystercatcher [includes 2 large downy chicks], 59 Sanderling [some in breeding plumage], 20 Red Knot, 40 Ruddy Turnstone, 8 Semipalmated Sandpiper, 15 Laughing Gull, 30 Herring Gull [some on nests], 40 Great Black-backed Gull. West Ocean City pond had many Mallard and Wood Duck ducklings, 1 femaleNORTHERN PINTAIL, and 2 Least Terns. The Berlin WWTP ponds had a female RING-NECKED DUCK, 2 Ruddy Ducks, and a banded adult Bald Eagle dining on what was probably a Mallard. Hurlock WWTP in Dorchester had 2 adult Snow Goose, 6 Ruddy Ducks, 1 Spotted Sandpiper, and many Mallard and Wood Duck ducklings. Just after sunset a Chuck-will's-widow was calling in Dorchester County just east of Choptank, Caroline County and another along Skeleton Creek Rd. in Carolina County. Good Birding! Jim Jim Stasz North Beach MD jlstasz@aol.com ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================