The mid-eastern shore wasn't nearly as hopping as the lower shore.  With more ducks than warblers and cold afternoon winds, it seemed more like March than April.  Nevertheless, it was an enjoyable day of birding, including my first Pectoral Sandpipers, Least Terns, and Common Yellowthroats of the year; Virginia Rails (but no Soras) in two counties; and 10 -- count 'em 10 -- Gadwall in Caroline County.  Highlights below.

Black Walnut Point - Talbot County

1 Common Loon
1 Horned Grebe
30 Surf Scoters
4 Bufflehead
2 Purple Martins
1 Yellow-throated Warbler

Wade Point Inn - 2 Snowy Egrets

Llandaff and Spring Rd impoundments

2 Pied-billed Grebes
2 Blue-winged Teal
2 American Wigeon
4 Northern Shoveler
8 Gadwall
40 Green-winged Teal
2 Mute Swans
8 Greater Yellowlegs
2 Northern Rough-winged Swallows

Mullet Branch Rd - 1 Louisiana Waterthrush

Kingston Rd. 

2 Blue-gray Gnatcatchers
1 Prothonotary Warbler

Tanyard to Choptank - Caroline County

10 Gadwall
2 Virginia Rails
20 Greater Yellowlegs
5 Lesser Yellowlegs
2 Pectoral Sandpiper
10 Dunlin
1 Wilson's Snipe
6 Caspian Terns
1 Forster's Tern
6 Least Terns
1 Ovenbird
3 Common Yellowthroats

Bennett Pt Road - QA Co.

1 Great Egret
2 Blue-winged Teal
20 Green-winged Teal
6 Greater Yellowlegs
1 Least Sandpiper
3 Forster's Terns

Horsehead - 1 Virginia Rail

John Hubbell
Washington DC