Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2000 14:32:05 -0700 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Kyle Rambo Subject: Shorebirds at PRNAS in St. Mary's County, MD MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Went out onto the airfield at Patuxent River Naval Air Station during heavy rains this afternoon to check out some local flooding and observed the following shorebirds: 29 Upland Sandpiper 9 Least Sandpiper 5 Semipalmated Sandpiper 1 Western Sandpiper 4 Short-billed Dowitchers 2 Lesser Yellowlegs 21 Killdeer 1 Willet 1 Pectoral Sandpiper 1 Stilt Sandpiper 1 Whimbrel Still not as good as our best PRNAS shorebird day, however, when we had 18 species on the golf course driving range following heavy rains in August of 1984 (I think). Kyle Rambo Hollywood, MD Kyle_Rambo@yahoo.com __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get Yahoo! Mail - Free email you can access from anywhere! http://mail.yahoo.com/ ========================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ========================================================================= ===========================================================================