Ray Kiddy wrote: > Hi everyone, > > Mary Twigg and I visited North Branch in Allegany County Saturday > morning 9:00 - 11:00 and found the following: > > Short-billed Dowitcher 1 > Common Snipe 1 > Pectoral Sandpiper 2 > Solitary Sandpiper 1 > Spotted Sandpiper 1 > Lesser Yellowlegs 2 > Greater Yellowlegs 1 > Least Sandpiper 5 > Semi- Sandpiper 2 > Great Blue Heron 1 > Barn Swallow A few > Eastern Kingbird 4 > > Not much by eastern shore or Hart-Miller standards but not too bad for > W. MD. > > Ray Kiddy > Cumberland, MD > rrkiddy@hereintown.net I know what you mean Ray, we have to work for our shorebirds in Cecil Co. as well. We do have a couple of spots that are fairly reliable tho`. In fact, I just got word tonight of upland sandpipers ( Gunthers Pond, Marcia ) , so guess I`ll be taking ( another ) trip south in the morning.Leslie Fisher Cecil Co.Md.