Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2000 22:36:36 -0400 Reply-To: Robert Ringler Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Robert Ringler Subject: Eastern Shore Rambling MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Today, July 11, I assisted DNR personnel banding Brown Pelicans on = Spring Island, Dorchester County. Over 100 were banded, with 100 of = these also receiving blue plastic readable bands in the K series. You = can read these band numbers at some distance with a scope. Both = pelicans and cormorants had very small young in some late nests. Expect = = post-breeding dispersal of pelicans into the upper part of the bay in = September and October. On the way home I visited the sewage ponds at Easton and Ridgely. = Both are suffering from high water levels, one of the disadvantages of = normal rainfall. At Easton I saw 2 adult Moorhens and 2 Killdeer plus a = = yellowlegs flying away. At Ridgely, where the habitat is slightly = better, were 1 adult white Snow Goose, 33 Canada Geese, 3 Wood Ducks, = many broods of Mallards, 1 male Ruddy Duck, 6 Killdeer, 1 Lesser = Yellowlegs, 6 adult Spotted Sandpipers, and 8 Least Sandpipers. I also = saw 3 shorebirds flying away, 2 yellowlegs and possibly a Stilt = Sandpiper. Bob Ringler Eldersburg, Md ringler@qis.net ========================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ========================================================================= ===========================================================================