Dave Harvey and I visited several shorebird sites on the Eastern Shore today with the highlight being three Buff-breasted Sandpipers. Here is  a rundown of what we found at each site.

Salisbury, borrow pit along US50:
Wood Duck  1
Mallard  30
Great Egret  2
Little Blue Heron  11
Glossy ibis  10
Semipalmated Plover  2
Killdeer  10
Greater Yellowlegs  1
Lesser Yellowlegs  4
Solitary Sandpiper  1
Semipalmated Sandpiper  3
Least Sandpiper  10
Pectoral Sandpiper  3

Brookview, pig farm on Indiantown Road:
Laughing Gull  5000, at least half were juveniles

Hurlock WWTP:
Snow Goose  3 flightless birds
Wood Duck  2
Mallard  65
Ruddy Duck  3
Semipalmated Plover  2
Killdeer  20
Lesser Yellowlegs  3
Spotted Sandpiper  4
Least Sandpiper  10
Pectoral Sandpiper  1
Laughing Gull  30

Petersburg, turf farm on W side of Route 331 about a half mile N of Route 14, DeLorme 43C4:
Killdeer  2
BUFF-BREASTED SANDPIPER  3, disappearing from view behind higher ground near a farm lane that goes to a shed near the sprinkler pump
Bobolink  5 flying over calling

Oak Grove, cucumber fields were dry with no birds

Ridgely WWTP:
Canada Goose  4
Mallard  16
Shoveler  6
Killdeer  15
Spotted Sandpiper  3
Least Sandpiper  45
Laughing Gull  25

Fields in the Ridgely area were planted in corn and soybeans with little available shorebird habitat.

Central Sod Farms on John Brown Road, lots of truck traffic:
Killdeer  7
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Bob Ringler
Eldersburg MD