Okay...some updates for earlier sightings first: 4/26 Black-throated Blue Warbler Danny Bystrak Jug Bay 5/8 Wilson's Warbler Gene Scarpulla Hart-Miller Island Now for the new species: 5/8 Stilt Sandpiper Blackwater NWR Marshall Iliff, Harry and George Armistead Also reported by Rick Blom for Lakelands Rd Ponds in Harford Co. around 5/10 (I don't have the actual date) 5/2 Whimbrel Marshall Iliff Truitt's Landing Road 5/9 Yellow-headed Blackbird C&O Canal about 3/4 mile east of the Old Angler's Inn Don and Marcia Simsonson 5/11 Yellow-bellied Flycatcher Matt Hafner Susquehanna State Park 5/12 Olive-sided Flycatcher Violette's Lock Jim Green and Ann Lucy Grand total of 289 (plus 4 possible new species). Our 289 is 72% of our state list of 403. Way to go, Maryland! MD Red Knots anyone???? Until next week...... Fran -------------------------------- Fran Saunders Web Site Director Maryland Ornithological Society Silver Spring, Maryland webmaster@mdbirds.org http://www.MDBirds.org