Date: Tue, 5 Sep 2000 18:50:29 EDT Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Mark Hoffman Subject: Re: Assateague birds today (incl. lots of Sandwich Terns) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Re. Marshall's question on Sandwich Tern high counts, I only have 3 double-digit records in the data base: 08/28/1998 Skimmer 12 (Todd, Czaplak) NAB 53:41 08/06/1994 Assateague 11 (Hoffman) MB 52:61 08/16/1991 OC 10 (Wirenga et al.) MB 48:21 Talk about breaking a record!! Mark Hoffman In a message dated 9/2/00 9:41:44 PM Eastern Daylight Time, Miliff@AOL.CO M writes: > The highlight for us was an incredible number of Sandwich Terns on th e > beach. Scattered from crossover #10 (about 6 mi south of the pavement ) to > the state line we counted about 350 Royal Terns, 40 Caspian Terns, and 60 > small sternas we counted 63 (!) Sandwich Terns. 12 or so of the Sandw ich > were feeding offshore, another dozen were scattered along the beach, w hile > the bulk came from the two large tern flocks which had 15 and 23 Sandw ich > respectively. Maybe Mark can enlighten us on the previous state high c ount, > but I'll be surprised if any other state count comes close (16 comes t o mind > as the previous high). The previous week Jim and Matt Hafner counted 23 > using the same method, but that included 6 at Eagle's Nest Flats which were > completely submerged today at 2:30 p.m.. We didn't visit Skimmer I.. ======================================================================== To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================== ==========================================================================