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Oak Grove puddles and various updates

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"Lovelace Glen (DelDOT)"

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Lovelace Glen (DelDOT)

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Fri, 6 May 2005 08:32:14 -0400

Hello All,
	I made a quick check of the puddles in the neighbor's field last night (5/5 at 7 PM).  These are the only significant puddles remaining in the area even after last weekend's rain.  Hopefully, today's rain will recharge them enough to last until Spring Count day.  Anyway, the shorebirds included 2 Greater Yellowlegs, 3 Lesser Yellowlegs, 2 Solitary Sands, 32 Least Sands and 3 Semi Plovers (#106 for the year here and apparently new for the MD list as per yesterday's update).  The leasts and the plovers had not been here recently, but the others have been present for a week with a high of 4 Solitaries.  A Spotted Sandpiper was present 5/1-3.  These puddles are somewhat visible from the sharp corner in Kinder Rd (southern tip of Caroline Co.), but are distant in the far end of the field and somewhat obstructed.  If there are any county lister types interested in access via my farm, please contact me offlist.
	In other arrivals, it has been mainly the expected summer residents.  The only migrants have been single Parula on Kinder Rd on 4/30 and a Yellow Warbler on the farm on 5/1.  A nice surprise was a Worm-Eating Warbler in a new location on 5/3.  It was in an area that was partially logged about 1990.  Many larger trees were left standing and an understory of holly has filled in nicely now.  Though there was only one laurel bush that I noticed (in the past, the Wormie was associated with an area of laurel understory that was mostly lost to logging in 2001), but maybe the stand of holly will be enough to keep it here.

Good Birding,
Glen Lovelace III
Seaford, DE