Hello All,
	The deluge on Saturday (1.5" here) has filled most of the local puddles to overflowing.  The rain ended about 5 PM on Saturday (4/2).  After some quick ditching work to get parts of the yard to drain, I checked the biggest puddles.  The best find was a single Black-bellied Plover on Kinder Rd (Caroline Co., MD).
	On Sunday morning (4/3), Shelly and I made a more thorough search of my home area (1 mile circle around Oak Grove).  We came up with 5 species of shorebirds - both yellowlegs (100 Greaters and 21 Lessers), 3 Wilson's Snipe, 2 Dunlin and Killdeer.  The Dunlin were on the north side of Harper Rd, just west of the state line.  This is only my 4th record for Dunlin here.  The Snipe were in the corn stubble puddle on west side of North Oak Grove Rd about 1.25 miles north of DE 20 (in Sussex Co.).  Other interesting finds were 2 Green-winged Teal in the puddle at the west end of Horseshoe Rd (Sussex).  This was a nice surprise since I had missed teal in March when they usually appear.  On Wild Turkey Rd, I added the first of year Yellow-Rumped Warbler, Pine Warbler (singing) and Barn Swallow.  Oddly, I saw both martin and Barn Swallow before finding Tree Swallow (found later in the day).  Home list up to 76 species for 2005.
	A bit further afield, we checked the nice puddle on the east side of MD 577, a mile north of Reliance.  It held 79 Greater and 41 Lesser Yellowlegs, 13 Dunlin, 3 Pectoral Sands and 1 dowitcher sp along with another GW Teal.  [side note: This is the same puddle that held a Ruff in April 2000]  If only that dowitcher would stop inside the 1 mile circle!  (They are taunting me - this makes 4 or 5 records within an additional mile, but none inside the circle).

Good Birding,
Glen and Shelly Lovelace
Seaford, DE