I'm not sure why this stuff hasn't been posted yet.  I presume all of us thought someone else was going to do it.

After the pelagic, 8 of us (Jim Stasz, Mike Burchett, Hans Holbrook, Jim Brighton, Zach Baer, Jim Wilson, Dave Powell, and myself) set out on Assateague to find a Lark Sparrow.  We split off into 4 pairs each taking a section of the National Park area.  Within 20 minutes Zach and Jim W (lots of Jims this weekend) called with a Lark Sparrow in eastern part of the campground.  Unfortunately in flew before all of us could get there.  So we again split up and began scouring the campground.  Mike and I refound the bird in the B loop where it stayed for the 20 minutes we were there and obviously long enough for Stan and Bill to see it later in the morning.  Other migrants were slim, Redstart, Northern Waterthrush, Yellow-billed Cuckoos.

Next we took a trip down the ORV Zone where the highlight was a juvenile Wilson's Phalarope at Fox Hill Levels.  County bird for all except Stasz.  At the Virginia line on the beach, we had 18 Sandwich Terns and 3 Lesser Black-backed Gulls (2 1st summer, 1 adult).  Other shorebird highlights were 1 Red Knot on the beach, 1 White-rumped Sandpiper at Fox Hill, and ~15 Whimbrel on the beach.

On the way to Hurlock we stopped at the Salisbury turf farm where a Buff-breasted Sandpiper was feeding with ~80 Killdeer.  On the large plowed field just south of Hurlock on 331, we found 2 American Golden-Plovers with 123 Killdeer.   Hurlock had more shorebirds than I've seen there all summer, but no uncommon ones.  The Black-necked Stilt continued at the Easton Landfill pond.  QA county was a shorebird bust, with few birds between the 309 ponds and the turf farm.  Hans, Zach, Jim W, Mike and I walked Terrapin Park in the evening with the only migrants being a Traill's Flycatcher and Magnolia Warbler.


Matt Hafner
Bel Air, MD