Harney Road: Baird's Sandpiper and Cloudless Sulphur

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On Saturday afternoon Sept. 12 I was watching birds at the Harney Road pond
east of Emmitsburg, Frederick Co., Maryland.  During the hour or so we were
there we noted 

Am. Golden Plover--6 or 8
Killdeer--25+
Semipalmated Plover--1
Baird's Sandpiper--1
Least Sandpiper--6 or so
Lesser Yellowlegs--1
American Pipit--2
Savannah Sparrow--5
Great Egret, Red-tailed Hawk, and not much else.  

We also saw Cloudless Sulphurs twice: once flying north, which I didn't
see, and once heading south (a male).  Has anyone been noting the sex ratio
of these Sulphurs?  Well over half of the ones I reported from Point
Lookout last weekend were male; a recent report from Washington & Old
Dominion Regional Bike Trail in Vienna, VA. (Fairfax Co.) on the LEPS-List
said that all of the ones seen up close were males.  

Best, 

Rob Hilton
robert@csa.com
Bethesda

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