Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2001 21:29:00 -0400 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Stan Arnold Subject: Sanderlings & Am. Golden Plovers in Montgomery/Howard Counties MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi Folks, I was pleased to be able to get out this afternoon (Thur., 9/20) to see what kinds of birds the rains may have deposited out here in the piedmont. I wasn't disappointed when I visited the Greenbridge Rd. access to Triadelphia Reservoir (Montgomery Co.), and tallied an unprecedented (for me in this neck of the woods) eight species of shorebird in the same location where the Ruddy Turnstone was seen two weeks ago. Highlights today were two SANDERLINGs and two AMERICAN GOLDEN PLOVERs on the near edge of the spit of land projecting out into the reservoir. I watched the collection of birds for a good 40 minutes, and at one point they flushed, flying out over the water (Howard Co.), then returned to the same spot. For some icing on the cake, a BARRED OWL gave three renditions of "who cooks for you," after which a flurry of activity near the parking area produced two MAGNOLIA WARBLERs and two BLACK AND WHITE WARBLERs among the many chickadees and titmice responding to my spishing. The tally: Green-winged Teal 1 Osprey 2 Semiplamated Plover 2 Am. Golden Plover 2 Killdeer 6 Greater Yellowlegs 1 Lesser Yellowlegs 3 Sanderling 2 Least Sandpiper 1 Pectoral Sandpiper 1 Later, on Rte 94 in Howard Co., over the pond at Larriland Farms between Florence Rd. and Old Annapolis Rd., I watched several white birds flying from a distance. Gulls, I thought, but when I stopped and got the bins on them, they turned out to be seven FORSTER'S TERNs. One other interesting bird for the outing was a COMMON NIGHTHAWK flying over Carrs Mill Rd., near Glenwood Elementary School. I checked the sod farms at Jennings Chapel Rd., Hardy Rd., Daisy Rd., and Triadelphia Mills Rd., but as usual, nothing to report. Two months of checking these areas has produced nothing better than Horned Larks. By the way, a new pond was just put in along Jennings Chapel Rd., just east of the sod farm. It had a Canada Goose, Mallard and Great Blue Heron in it today, and looks like it will have good potential for winter waterfowl. It's easy to see from the road, but there are no pull-offs or nearby parking areas along this country road. Stan Arnold Glen Burnie blackrail@earthlink.net ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================