Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2002 21:51:11 -0400 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding <MDOSPREY@HOME.EASE.LSOFT.COM> Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding <MDOSPREY@HOME.EASE.LSOFT.COM> From: Hans Holbrook <HansHolbrook@MSN.COM> Subject: Eastern Shore 7/12-14 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hi All, The purpose for my trip wasn't birding, but the driver has minor interest= s in birding, so I had him drop in on a few places. I'll just list the h= ighlights and keep it short. Shorebirds were showing up everywhere. Elliott Island 7/12 2 Common Moorhen 6 Lesser Yellowlegs (Here I ran into a birder who had been at Deal Island earlier in the morn= ing, he described an AMERICAN SWALLOW-TAILED KITE that had flown over his= jeep. I have seen a few hundred of the birds in different places from C= entral to South America, but never one in the states. His description wa= s good, so I desided to have a try at it. No luck though. He had also s= een four Black-necked Stilts at Deal.) Deal Island 7/12 2 Semipalmated Sandpipers 1 Willet w/3 fluffy young 1 Yellow-billed Cuckoo Pocomoke State Forest/Shad Landing 7/12-13 Chuck-will's-widows (several around our campsite) Assateague Island 7/13 (ORV ZONE) Least Tern colony had a number of hatched chicks 1 Whimbrel 1 Pectoral Sandpiper 50+ Short-billed Dowitcher 1 Spotted Sandpiper 20 Least Sandpipers 3 Sanderling 100+ Willet in one area on the VA state line Lesser Yellowlegs Truitt's Landing 7/13 6 Least Sandpiper Lesser Yellowlegs Skimmer Island 7/14 2 Sandwich Tern (seen from Hoopers, a long awaited state bird as well as = the Whimbrel) Good birding, Hans Holbrook Columbia, MD =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D =========================================================================