Date: Tue, 3 Sep 2002 17:39:26 EDT Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Jim Stasz Subject: 9/2 Chesapeake (Remmington) Farms, Kent Co. & other places MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi Folks! I took the holiday to do some birding in Kent and fill in gaps in my lists. A stop at the "Great Oak" pond yielded only 2 Lesser Yellowlegs and a lone Least Sandpiper. Apparently the heavy rain the day before changed the shorebird habitat. The main pond at Chesapeake (Remmington) Farm had been a dustbowl until recently, but now had a few wet spots [still not enough water for a duck]. To give you an idea.... Least Sandpipers were feeding next to Horned Larks! The tally for that pond: Greater Yellowlegs 2 Lesser Yellowlegs 58 Semipalmated Sandpiper 4 Least Sandpiper 3 Baird's Sandpiper 1 Pectoral Sandpiper 8 Stilt Sandpiper 4 Short-billed Dowitcher 4 Long-billed Dowitcher 1 A cruise of the Wildlife Tour yielded the usual Bald Eagles & Great Blue Herons, but also a few migrants with one each of Tennessee Warbler, Chestnut-sided Warbler, and Yellow-bellied Flycatcher. Later I found a Black-billed Cuckoo, an Olive-sided Flycatcher, and 2 Black-throated Blue Warblers at Millington WMA in eastern Kent. John Brown Road in Queen Anne's had 34 Killdeer, 5 Pectoral Sandpiper, 3 Lesser Yellowegs, 1 Semipalmated Sandpiper, 1 Western Sandpiper, and 6 White-rumped Sandpiper. The wet spot on Kibler Road in Caroline County east of Goldssboro was barely wet and by tomorrow will almost certainly be dry. But it held: 1 Semipalmated Plover, 22 Killdeer, 16 Lesser Yellowegs, 2 Pectoral Sandpiper, and 1 Short-billed Dowitcher. Unless there are big rains, the shorebirding will be poor in Carolina, Kent, and Queen Anne's Counties this year. Good Birding! Jim Jim Stasz North Beach MD jlstasz@aol.com ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================