Hi,

    My wife (Donna) and I spent Saturday and most of Sunday in the Ocean 
City area doing a bit of birding and a few other things.  Some 
highlights for me were 7 Black Skimmers at Skimmer Island, some 
shorebirds at West Ocean City Pond (including White-rumps and 
Pectorals).  Mark Hoffman was there and found a Merlin there for me 
(which I needed for my state year list).  We/I had a Veery, a Cape May, 
a Blackpoll, a few Northern Parulas, and Am. Redstarts at Bayside 
Campground.

    On the way back on Sunday, Donna and I stopped at the Chesapeake Bay 
Env. Ctr (formerly referred to as Horsehead Sanctuary) where the 
shorebird habitat was good and viewing from Blind 1 I had an amazing 33 
Stilt Sandpipers (actual count), a single Dunlin a few Pectoral 
Sandpipers (~10 or so), Both Yellowlegs (lessers were way more 
numerous), Semipalmated Plovers, Semipalmated Sandpipers, and Least 
Sandpipers.

Good Birding !

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J. B. Churchill
Frostburg, Maryland