Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2003 20:28:43 +0000 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: jim brighton Subject: Eastern Shore 9/28 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed Spring Rd. Impoundments -- 22 Killdeer 7 Least Sandpipers 2 Semipalmated Sandpipers 3 Pectoral Sandpipers 8 Lesser Yellowlegs 8 Canada Geese 34 Mallards 3 American Black Ducks 2 Blue-winged Teal Tanyard, Car. Co. -- Absolutley nothing Sorgham Fields South of Beaulah Landfill -- Flock of Boblinks approx. 300 birds Hurlock Sewage Ponds -- 8 Western Sandpiper ( These birds were beautiful. They never flushed. I got about three feet away. Oh, for a camera.) 9 American Golden Plover 3 Spotted Sandpiper 12 Lesser Yellowlegs 1 Greater Yellowlegs Large Shoveler Flock approx. 80 birds Ruddy's, Mallards, Blk. Ducks, Green-winged Teal 1 Barn Swallow Pigfarm -- A hell of a lot of Laughing Gulls. Turffarm behind Loews, Salisbury -- 3 Killdeer 1 Merlin -- sitting eating something while a kestrel bombed him until the Merlin flew away leaving tastey morsels for the Kestrel. Fields in front of small airport on Naylor Mill Rd. -- 12 Boblink Impoundment at the beginning of Salisbury Bypass Rt. 50 -- 5 American Egrets 2 Great Blue Herons 15 Lesser Yellowlegs Large Mallard Flock-- approx. 50 birds. _________________________________________________________________ Get McAfee virus scanning and cleaning of incoming attachments. Get Hotmail Extra Storage! http://join.msn.com/?PAGE=features/es ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================