Date: Fri, 4 Oct 2002 19:45:30 -0400 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Walter Ellison Subject: Wilson's Phalarope in Kent County MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi Everybody, I made a morning stop at the Great Oak Landing Rd Pond today and was lucky enough to find the pond almost goose-free (if 200 is goose-free), allowing a chance to survey other birds without trying to use x-ray vision on honkers. By the time I departed there were 3000 Canadas, 2 CanadaXGreylag hybrids, and 70 Snow Geese (3 blues). Among the shorebirds was a single winter plumage *Wilson's Phalarope* that spent most of its time swimming in the company of yellowlegs. Other shorebirds included *3 Long-billed Dowitchers*, *14 Stilt Sandpipers*, 9 Pectoral Sandpipers, 22 Lesser Yellowlegs, and 29 Least Sandpipers. Other waterfowl included pintail, shoveler, both teal, Ring-necked Duck and Ruddy Duck. Good Birding, Walter Ellison MD/DC Atlas Coordinator - MOS 23460 Clarissa Rd Chestertown, MD 21620-3645 410-778-9568 rossgull@crosslink.net "A person who is looking for something doesn't travel very fast." - E. B. White ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================