Hello All,
     Shelly and I were leading the Sussex Bird Club trip to OC and coastal
points today.  About 10:30 AM, we drove out to the north end of Golf
Course Rd (beyond West Ocean City Pond) to view the bay.  Upon turning
around to leave, I spotted a single bird sitting on the power line
(between 10460 and 10468 Golf Course Rd, on the bayside).  Stopped and
looked with binos to see a chunky dove with a white stripe clearly
defining the lower edge of its folded wing.  After saying something I
probably cannot repeat hear, I jumped out of the car and set up the scope
on the bird.  As others in the group took a quick look, we got out the
camera to attempt pictures.  That, of course, was the moment that the bird
decided to fly away.  In flight, I could see the white bar in the wing and
the stubbiness of its tail (shorter than any Mourning Dove) though the
angle was such that I could not see the tail pattern.  It flew off to the
SW, disappearing behind the brick house on the south side of the road.

     User error, forgot that hitting TAB sends the message when using the
web window.  Now the rest of the story....

     We searched this area and the next two dead end streets to the south
without success.  A fruitless diversion to Assateague (zero swallows) and
we returned to the area and searched the same streets again between 1:15
and 2 PM, again coming up empty.  Hiding under a feeder in someone's back
yard?  I hope someone is able to re-find the bird to document it properly.

     After that, we had to go to Selbyville, DE to find the Eurasian
Collared Doves (2 and Hall & McCabe Str.) to make a 3 species of dove day.