[MDOsprey] 7/27-Eastern Shore Birding

Birder17@aol.com
Wed, 28 Jul 1999 22:57:32 EDT 

Ospreyers,
    On Tuesday, Matt Hafner and I went down the Eastern shore to various 
hotspots.  Our results were:

1.) Elkton Fish Hatchery Ponds
    2- Little Blue Heron
    5- Green Heron
    2- Glossy Ibis
    2- Spotted Sandpiper
2.) Old Telegraph Road
    31- Cattle Egert
3.) Middle Neck Road
    4- Vesper Sparrow
4.) Gunther's Pond (very dry)
    4- Grasshopper  Sparrow
    12- Bobolinks
    1- Least Sandpiper
5.) Ridgely WWTP
    50- Killdeer
    200- Lesser Yellowlegs
    10- Solitary Sandpiper
    13- Semipalmated Sandpiper
    1- Western Sandpiper
    20- Least Sandpiper
    42- Pectoral Sandpiper
    18- Stilt Sandpiper
    1- Laughing Gull
    2- Eastern Meadowlarks
    1- Grasshopper Sparrow
    100- Bank Swallows
6.) Easton STP
    1- Long Billled Dowitcher
        (Classic breeding plumage, no molt showing)
    1- Least Tern
    7- Pectoral Sandpiper
    1- Western Sandpiper
    20- Least Sandpiper
    15- Semipalmated Sandpiper
    7- Spotted Sandpiper
    5- Solitary Sandpiper
    30- Lesser Yellowlegs
7.) Tanyard
    3- Caspian Tern
    26- Forster's Tern
    4- Common Moorhen 
        (heard only)
8.) Hurlock WWTP
    1- Tundra Swan
    1- Snow Goose
    3- Ruddy Duck
    25- Spotted Sandpiper
9.) Elliott Island
    1- Surf Scoter
        (Seen off the very end of the island; in molt)
    2- Semipalmated Plover
    4- Black Necked Stilt (1 juv.)
    1- Greater Yellowlegs
    10- Lesser Yellowlegs
    20- Least Sandpiper
    3- Short Billed Dowitcher
    3- Dowitcher Sp.
    1- Royal Tern
    10- Slt. Marsh Sharp Tailed Sparrow
10.) Bethel WMA
    1- Least Bittern

Joe Chronowski
Churchville, MD