Date: Tue, 2 Sep 2003 20:07:38 -0400 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Norm Saunders Subject: FW: Egypt Rd.-Dorchester MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > -----Original Message----- > From: George L. Armistead [mailto:georgearmistead@hotmail.com] > Sent: Monday, September 01, 2003 6:31 PM > To: mdosprey-request@home.ease.lsoft.com > Subject: Egypt Rd.-Dorchester > > > Hi All, > > On Sunday 8/31 in the flooded fields on the west side of Egypt Rd (s. > of Cambridge, on the way to Blackwater NWR) Tina Russo and I > observed a nice > collection of shorebirds. There was a harrier pushing the > birds around every > now and then but the group included (in no particular order): > > 140 Killdeer > 30 peep sp. > 15 Least Sandpipers > 7 Western Sands > 4 Semi. Sands > 32 Pectoral Sandpipers > 1 BAIRD'S SANDPIPER > 19 Lesser Yellowlegs > 1 UPLAND SANDPIPER > 1 Wilson's Snipe > 4 Semi Plovers > 8 Black-bellied Plovers > 4 Am. Golden Plovers > > also 4 Wild Turkeys there > > Migrant passerines were sparse at Blackwater (as always) but we did > have a few Magnolias, Redstarts and Black-and-whites along Wildlife Drive. > > Later that afternoon at Rigby's Folly we had a female Black Scoter > from the dock only about 100 feet away. > > Best to everyone, > -George > > George L. Armistead > Philadelphia, PA > georgearmistead@hotmail.com > > _________________________________________________________________ > Get MSN 8 and help protect your children with advanced parental > controls. http://join.msn.com/?page=features/parental > ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================