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Frederick/Carroll Shorebirds 8/21/05

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Bob Ringler

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Sun, 21 Aug 2005 12:13:56 -0400

   This morning at Mason Dixon Farm:

East Pond:
Killdeer  1
Spotted Sandpiper  1
Least Sandpiper  19
Pectoral Sandpiper  1
+ 1 immature Cooper's Hawk that landed on the mudflat scattering the peeps

West Pond:
Canada Goose  1

North Pond (PA):
Lesser Yellowlegs  1
Peep, sp.  1

   Later I visited the wetlands at New Windsor MS:

Wood Duck  5, including 3 small downy young
Great Blue Heron  2
Green Heron  2
Semipalmated Plover  1
Killdeer  22
Lesser Yellowlegs  15
Solitary Sandpiper  2
Spotted Sandpiper  1 adult
Semipalmated Sandpiper  2
Least Sandpiper  20
Pectoral Sandpiper  3
+ 1 huge Snapping Turtle finding little coverage in the dwindling water of the pond
--
Bob Ringler
Eldersburg MD