Date: Sun, 27 Aug 2000 10:26:44 -0400 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Larry R Lynch Subject: Upland Sandpipers & Bobolinks - St. Mary's Co., MD Comments: To: marvadel@egroups.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On Saturday, 8/26/00: (12) Upland Sandpipers at Patuxent River Naval Air Station (100's) of Bobolinks at end of Beachville Road Many thanks go to Kyle Rambo and Lisa Lister for escorting our Audubon group from Richmond, VA onto Patuxent River NAS. The highlight for the day was the dozen Upland Sandpipers in the short grass along the runways. No Buff-breasted's were found on this trip, but they could show up at anytime. I did not keep the master list, but maybe someone else post it later on. Our thanks also go to Patty Craig for the excellent directions to the field full of Bobolinks. Saturday afternoon, we relocated the huge flock. Patty's original directions are shown below. Larry Lynch Richmond, VA birder6@juno.com _________________________________________________ --------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Patty Craig Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2000 08:13:11 -0400 Subject: [MDOSPREY] Bobolinks Hi, Last evening (8-24-00) I saw greater than 1000 Bobolinks on Beachville Road in St. Mary's County. This is the largest number I have ever seen at one time. They were in a field at the end of Beachville Road (off Rt. 5 in St. Inigoes) just before the entrance to Kitt's Point Boat Launch. The field is overgrown with Yellow Foxtail. This may have been what they were eating. More than half flew away while I was watching so I am not sure how many will be left. Good Birding, Patty Craig Dameron, MD pattycraig@mail.ameritel.net ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================