I checked the flats at Havre de Grace last evening (Mon., Aug, 2). The flats were extensive and growing as it became dark. Highlights: Killdeer 25 Semipalmated Plover 6 Least Sandpiper 30 Semipalmated Sandpiper 8 Western Sandpiper 2 Pectoral Sandpiper 3 Ruddy Turnstone 1 Lesser Yellowlegs 2 Spotted Sandpiper 3 Caspian Tern 28 Forster's Tern 300 Rick "Whenever nature creates something that cannot possibly be confused with something else, it immediately creates something very like it; if nature abhors a vacuum, it simply loathes and detests an unmistakable species." -- Miles Kington Rick Blom rblom@blazie.com 4318 Cowan Place Belcamp, Maryland 21017 (410)575-6086