While butterflying in southern Dorchester County today (postponed from Sunday afternoon because of the thunderstorms) I also made some bird observations. Jim Green had reported to me on Sunday afternoon that he found a singing Dickcissel on Egypt Road, but I knew from the ADC map that the house number he gave me did not exist. When I checked the site today I found that he had transposed the first two digits. There was one Dickcissel singing from the top of the big evergreen in the front yard of 4714 and another was singing in the field opposite 4734.

   At Blackwater NWR:
Bobwhite  1 singing from the pine next to the visitors center; great view from below
White Pelican  12 or 13
Greater Yellowlegs  2
Spotted Sandpiper  1
Semipalmated Sandpiper  5
Least Sandpiper  10
Short-billed Dowitcher  4
Least Tern  4
Caspian  Tern  1
Royal Tern  2
Forster's Tern  10
Red-headed Woodpecker  2, adult and juvenile near stop #4 on the wildlife drive
Bank Swallow  3
Brown-headed Nuthatch  1 juvenile on the wildlife drive
Grasshopper Sparrow  still singing

Other roadside birds:
Virginia Rail  2 heard on Shorters Wharf Road
Red-headed Woodpecker  a family group of 3 or 4 on Liners Road
Tree Swallow  at least 500 on wires at Bucktown with a few Banks and many martins

Higgins Millpond:
Semipalmated Plover  2
Killdeer  4
Solitary Sandpiper  2
Lesser Yellowlegs  15
Semipalmated Sandpiper  25
Western Sandpiper  1
Least Sandpiper  300
Pectoral Sandpiper  35
Stilt Sandpiper  1
Kingfisher  1

--
Bob Ringler 
Eldersburg MD