Date: Sat, 20 Mar 2004 19:45:46 -0500 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Robert Ringler Subject: Re: Piping Plover Calvert County MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Marty, The Yellow Book shows that it is not the first record for Calvert County. At the time it was published the only record was 5/2-8/87. Since then another was recorded 7/14/01. Bob Ringler ----- Original Message ----- From: Marty Cribb To: Sent: Saturday, March 20, 2004 5:35 PM Subject: [MDOSPREY] Piping Plover Calvert County > Hello Everyone, While on a family outing with Pat Rose and Chris > Ordiway and > 2 members of the Maryland Conservation Corps Fiona and Shelly (sorry I don't > have their last names) to hunt for fossils at Calvert Cliffs State > Park and > Flag Ponds Nature Center, we were fortunate to hear a calling American > Bittern at CCSP and see, photograph and enjoy a single Piping Plover > at FPNC. The bird was first observed at the "fossil hunters beach > area" actively feeding along the beach at high tide at about 3:00PM. > Pat and Chris > were able to take about 100 digital pictures and a few 35mm pictures > were taken also. The yellow book shows that this is a first Calvert > County record, will someone please let me know if this is incorrect. ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================