This morning I visited Poplar Island in Talbot County with Jan Reese. There has been a big turnover of shorebirds there and we recorded 22 species in 4.5 hours. Semi Sands probably numbered over a thousand and there were hundreds of Lesser Yellowlegs, Leasts, and Pecs. Highlights for the day were:

Golden Plover  5
Knot  2
White-rumped Sandpiper  5
Baird's Sandpiper  1
Stilt Sandpiper  15
Buff-breasted Sandpiper  8
Wilson's Phalarope  2
Red-necked Phalarope  10 (1 winter adult + 9 juveniles)

Other birds included: Shoveler  25, Black Tern  1

  On the way home I stopped at Pickering Creek Audubon Center. The water was high in the impoundment and the vegetation was even higher. I saw some Mallards and a Shoveler there.
   I also stopped at Central Sod Farms in Queen Anne's County for about 45 minutes (2:30-3:15) before an immature Cooper's Hawk scattered the birds. Nothing notable there:

Semipalmated Plover  1
Killdeer  25
Least Sandpiper  20
Pectoral Sandpiper  4
Laughing Gull  50
Horned Lark  20
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Bob Ringler
Eldersburg MD