Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2001 09:55:38 -0400 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Stan Arnold Subject: Re: Marbled Godwit Question MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Norm, last year there was a Marbled Godwit along Riley Roberts Rd. at Deale Island WMA, Somerset Co., on 12 Nov. I think Bob Ringler found it the day before. Stan Arnold Glen Burnie blackrail@earthlink.net -----Original Message----- From: Saunders_N To: MDOSPREY@HOME.EASE.LSOFT.COM Date: Wednesday, July 18, 2001 7:28 AM Subject: [MDOSPREY] Marbled Godwit Question >This past weekend Fran and I were on a field trip to the Elliott Island >marshes in Dorchester County. I asked the leader of the trip if he was >going to find us a Marbled Godwit. He found my request highly amusing, as >did most of the others on the trip, and I continued to hear joking remarks >about Marbled Godwits for the remainder of the evening. > >Now my question wasn't entirely without basis. The Yellow Book shows >appearances of Marbled Godwits in Maryland from about the middle of July >through early November. This species has been noted in Allegany, >Montgomery, Baltimore, Harford, Prince George's, Anne Arundel, Kent, Talbot, >Dorchester, and Worcester Counties. > >Habitat for the species has been noted as tidal mud flats and dredge spoil >impoundments. > >Aside from the obvious locale of Hart-Miller Island, I would like to know >some likely places to look for this species and also ideas about the most >likely time to look for it. If anyone can provide us with locales of past >sightings, especially from the Eastern Shore Counties, I'd be most >appreciative. > >Best, >Norm Saunders > >===================================== >Norman C. Saunders >Colesville, MD (Montgomery County) >marshhawk@att.net > >======================================================================= >To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com >with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey >======================================================================= ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================