Hello All,
	I checked some of the local fields on the way home from work yesterday evening 8/15:
-Adams Rd at the north edge of Bridgeville, opposite Purdue:  Half of the cucumber field has been harvested and partially tilled.  That decreases shorebird potential and there was only doves present.  Half of the field remains to be harvested.  This field has had shorebirds in previous summers, but is much better after a rain.
-Federalsburg Highway at the west edge of Bridgeville - several large potato fields have been harvested.  Numerous Horned Lark and Dove, a few Killdeer, but no better shorebirds.  These fields have been frustratingly unproductive.
-North Oak Grove Rd and Kinder Rd (Bob, this is Caroline Co.) - finished harvesting the cucumber field yesterday.  If you plant cucumbers, they will come!  A single juv. Buff-breasted Sandpiper was found about 6 PM in the newly harvested portion of the field visible from Kinder Rd.  I did not expect to find one quite this early, but I certainly will not object as it is a new home list bird.  Also present were ~100 Killdeer, 6 Pectoral Sand, 4 Semi Plover and 8 Least Sand.  Most of the birds were in the southwest corner seen from Kinder Rd, though 2 of the Pecs were on the North Oak Grove side.  A Spotted Sand had been here on 8/14.

	On 8/14, I made a short loop into MD looking for similar species, but with less results:
-Wright Rd, potato fields at west end (off MD 577, south of Federalsburg) - partially harvested, but only C Geese and crows
-MD 313, sod farm south of MD 577 split - pristine, manicured
-MD 313, ~1 mile north of MD 392 - bare fields - empty
-MD 392, harvested cucumber field between Wheatley Rd and Bailey Store Rd - 127 Killdeer, but nothing more interesting.

Good Birding,
Glen Lovelace III
Seaford, DE