We have an earlier pipit report from Aug. 17, 2001 by Paul O'Brien and Todd Day of two flying over Jug Bay calling. Otherwise Sept. 6 is next. Most of the early season pipit reports come in mid September but numbers do not pick up until October. The bird most likely to be mistaken for a pipit on the ground at this time of year is a juvenile Horned Lark which does not look at all like the adult. Sibley has a good likeness on page 363.

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Bob Ringler 
Eldersburg MD 


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From: Paul Woodward <> 

> Earliest fall record in Maryland according to the Yellow Book for 
> American Pipit is September 9 and not even common until the end of Sept.. 
> ID? 
> 
> Paul Woodward 
> Fairfax City, VA 
>  
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> From: "Lydia Schindler" 
> To: 
> Sent: Thursday, August 23, 2007 12:37 PM 
> Subject: [MDOSPREY] Buff-breasted 
> 
> 
> Hello, All-- 
> 
> The Buff-breasted Sandpiper continues at the polo fields on Hughes Rd, 
> Montgomery Co, as of 10:30 this morning. As before, it was pretty much in 
> line with the little pull-off. Horned Larks and an Am Pipit were also in the 
> fields, as were Killdeer. 
> 
> Hughes Hollow held both Yellowlegs, Leasts, and Solitary Sandpipers, and 
> Killdeer. 
> 
> Yesterday, 8/22, the sod farm fields along River Rd just downcounty from 
> White's Ferry had 3 or 4 Pectorals and a Least Sand, as well as a couple 
> dozen Killdeer. These birds were in or near an area of roughly plowed clumps 
> of mud, with machinery behind. 
> 
> Lydia Schindler 
> Darnestown