Date: Sun, 9 Sep 2001 10:58:38 -0400 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Lynn & Hal Subject: Salisbury Bypass borrow pit & Assateague MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Folks, We went down to Assateague area yesterday and can confirm the lack of = migrants on the Island, although there were a few species around = including good numbers of Baltmore Orioles, Yellow-bellied Flycatcher at = Bayside Campground and Least Flycatcher up the oyster shell rd north = from the state parking lot. While there, we searched for the Lark = Sparrow with no success. We stopped on the way to and from Assateague at the Salisbury Bypass = borrow pit on US 50 because of the nice selection of shorebirds, = including the following 12 species (some counts are only estimates): Stilt Sandpiper - 4 Pectoral Sandpiper - 5 White-rumped Sandpiper - 7 BAIRD'S SANDPIPER - 1 Western Sandpiper ~ 20 Semipalmated Sandpiper ~ 45 Least Sandpiper ~ 40 Semipalmated Plover ~ 10 Killdeer ~ 50 Lesser Yellowlegs ~ 65 Greater Yellowlegs ~ 20 We searched hard for the Buff-breasted Sandpiper, without success. We = also stopped by the Salisbury airport and saw no grasspipers. For those of you also interested in butterflies, painted ladies were = abundant on the Island, while other southern immigrants such as clouded = skipper and cloudless sulphur were almost non-existent (only 3 cloudless = sulphurs all day). Hal Wierenga and Lynn Davidson Arnold, MD hal.lynn@erols.com ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================