Date: Mon, 4 Sep 2000 13:31:00 EDT Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Gail Mackiernan Subject: John Brown Rd. today Hi all -- We went out to John Brown Rd, Central Sod Farm, this morning and got ther e about 9:30 am. We were the only birders for a while, then others includin g Norm and Fran Saunders, showed up. It was quite a good showing of grasspi pers: 13 American Golden Plover (although 9 flew off about 11 am) 3 Black-bellied Plovers 4-5 Semipalmated Plovers 75 (??) Killdeer (poorly counted, sorry!) I Upland Sandpiper 5 Buff-bellied Sandpipers 4-5 Pectoral sandpipers (possibly more, they moved around) 1 White-rumped Sandpiper 15 Least and 15 semipalmated sandpipers (perhaps more) 5 Lesser yellowlegs Lots of Laughing Gulls and Horned Larks as well. Cheers, Gail Mackiernan and Barry Cooper ======================================================================== To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================== ==========================================================================