Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2003 16:41:53 +0000 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: jim brighton Subject: Caroline/Wicomico Co. 4-19 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed I spent the early morning hours on Saturday birding in Idlewild WMA in Caroline Co. Green Herons (4) Palm Warblers (many) Yellowthroat (1) Pine Warblers (many) Myrtle Warblers (many) Blue-headed Vireo (2) White-throated Vireo (1) Field Sparrows (4) Sreech Owl (1 calling) In a field on Smithville Rd. before you hang a right to the lake there were Savannah Sparrows, Vesper Sparrows (2), Song Sparrows, and Field Sparrows. A really nice flock all working the field together. From Caroline Co. I drove to Indian Head Rd. in Dorchester Co. to see what was going on at the Pig Farm. There were thousands of Laughing Gulls at the farm and in the surrounding fields mixed with Ring-billed Gulls and Herring Gulls. Spent an hour sifting through the flocks but didn't find any rarities although with so many birds moving about I could have easily missed something. It's well worth a stop if you are near the area. Off of old Rt. 50 in the Nanticoke marshes I flushed a pair of Wood Ducks. I sat at the river on the Wicomico side and watched a small shorebird flight heading north up the Nanticoke for about an hour which included mostly Greater and Lesser Yellowlegs and many small flocks of Least Sandpipers. In the woods bordering the road I had another large flock of Palm Warblers, Pine, a lone Praire Warbler, Blue-headed Vireo, and two Hermit Thrushes. At Tyaskin (no grebes) I had a Red-throated Loon and a pair of Bufflehead. Bivalve still had the large Ruddy Duck flock with a few Lesser Scaup. The river yielded Cm. Loon, Royal and Caspian Terns, Forster's Terns, and many Double-crested Cormorants. Walking on a trail at the park in Bivalve a noticed three flowering Columbines. I was surprised because I've never seen these plants growing on the shore. Plus a 4ft. Black Racer - a beautiful snake. Jim Brighton jdbrighton3@hotmail.com Trappe, Md. _________________________________________________________________ Add photos to your e-mail with MSN 8. Get 2 months FREE*. http://join.msn.com/?page=features/featuredemail ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================