Date: Sun, 13 Sep 1998 16:35:49 -0700 From: Paul Pisano <cheep@erols.com> Subject: Amer. Golden-Plover, + in DC I stopped by the mouth of 4-mile Run late Sunday (9/13) morning, and saw the following shorebirds: 2 American Golden-Plovers 3 Black-bellied Plovers 4 Pectoral Sandpipers 87 Lesser Yellowlegs Also there were: 6 Blue-winged Teal 3 No. Pintails 1 Great Egret 2 Pied-billed Grebes Plus the usual Caspian & Forster's Terns, Laughing, Herring, Ring-billed & Great Black-backed Gulls, Mallards, Canada Geese, Great Blue Herons, etc. My high count for Lesser Yellowlegs at that spot was last Friday, when I counted 99. Also saw a Dunlin there at that time. Best regards, Paul Pisano =============== Norm Saunders Colesville, MD osprey@ari.net