Date: Fri, 6 Sep 2002 19:40:42 -0500 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Maurice Barnhill Subject: Re: 2 Buff-Breasted Sandpipers and a Golden Plover MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Glen, I like Wavy Sandpiper. Let me contribute "Short-billed Sandpiper," which might be a Western with a shortish bill and on the other hand might be a Semipalmated with a longish bill. Glen Lovelace III wrote: > > Hello All, > The first Buff-Breasted Sand was in the cucumber field on Handy Rd, Caroline Co. All of the water and the wonderful shorebirds from last > Monday were gone, but this was a nice replacement. Also present were numerous Killdeer, a Pec and 2 Wavy Sandpipers. The new species > "Wavy Sandpiper" can be identified as any peep too far out in the heat waves for any sort of recognition. > Inspired by last weekends reports from Hurlock, I visited Hurlock WWTP this afternoon. I was rewarded with another Buff-Breasted Sand and > a Golden Plover on the dike separating the east cells. Also present was the previously reported Bonaparte's Gull, a Green Heron, 6 Ruddy Duck, > both yellowlegs, Least and Semi Sands. > I also visited the pig farm on Indiantown Rd hoping for the Western or the Baird's. Found neither, only Least and Semis. > > Good Birding, > Glen Lovelace III > Seaford, DE > > ======================================================================= > To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com > with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey > ======================================================================= -- Maurice Barnhill mvb@udel.edu [not bellatlantic.net] Department of Physics and Astronomy University of Delaware Newark, DE 19716 ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================