Date: Sun, 28 Mar 2004 22:07:42 -0500 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Robert Ringler Subject: Lower Eastern Shore 3/27-28/04 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable After a meeting on Saturday I was able to do a little birding in = Worcester and Wicomico this weekend. 3/27/04 (with Norm Saunders): Highlights were single Great Egrets at = West Ocean City pond and Hickory Creek Nature Park; a Chipping Sparrow = and two Blue-gray Gnatcatchers at Hickory Creek Nature Park. Good = numbers of Shovelers still around with 40 at Berlin sewage ponds and 30 = at West Ocean City pond. Adult Bald Eagle sitting on top of the dunes = on Assateague (seen from Eagle's Nest). 3/28/04: Two Great Egrets, two Snowy Egrets, another Blue-Gray = Gnatcatcher, and a western Palm Warbler at Mystic Harbour (with Norm = Saunders). At Ocean City Inlet - 1 immature Great Cormorant, flock of about 20 = eiders mostly out of sight bouncing in the waves off the south jetty Louisiana Waterthrush and Yellow-throated Warbler at Colbourne = (following Zach Baer's note from the 27th) In Wicomico County, Louisiana Waterthrush and two Hermit Thrushes at = Bear Swamp, Yellow-throated Warblers at Twilley's Bridge, Great Egret at = Roaring Point, 120 Laughing Gulls at Salisbury, Winter Wren at Johnson = WMA Pine Warblers singing at almost every stop. Bob Ringler Eldersburg, Md ringler@qis.net =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D =========================================================================