Birding on the Eastern Shore today (9-3-99) with Gail Frantz and Elliot Kirschbaum visiting several sites. Central Sod Farms, Queen Anne's County: Buff-breasted Sandpiper 1 Golden Plover 10 (probably all molting adults) Killdeer 70 All birds were in the plowed field on the NE side of John Brown Road between the woods and the grassy turf, but other people there said they had seen them in other fields earlier in the day. Ridgely sewage ponds: Canada Goose 7 Mallard 20 Blue-winged Teal 7 Green-winged Teal 10 Semi Plover 1 Killdeer 60 Greater Yellowlegs 3 Lesser Yellowlegs 140 Spotted Sandpiper 2 Semi Sand 20 Least Sand 30 Pectoral Sand 15 Stilt Sand 8 Snipe 1 Laughing Gull 2 Hurlock sewage ponds: Pied-billed Grebe 1 DC Cormorant 2 Great Blue Heron 2 Snow Goose 1 Canada Goose 29 Tundra Swan 1 Mallard 10 Ruddy Duck 1 female Killdeer 4 Lesser Yellowlegs 8 Spotted Sandpiper 2 Semi Sand 25 Least Sand 40 Pectoral Sand 1 Laughing Gull 85 Forster's Tern 13 Bivalve, Wicomico County: DC Cormorant 6 Caspian Tern 1 juvenile Royal Tern 500 Small terns 0 Waterview, Wicomico County: Brown Pelican - at least 5 on pound nets in mouth of Nanticoke R Cattle Egret 8 in horse pasture Clapper Rail - heard 3 Gnatcatcher 1 Bob Ringler