I spent mid-day birding lower and northeast Dorchester County today.
Highlights include:

Dickcissel -- Two singing males on Egypt Rd at what now seems to be their
annual spot.

Shorebirds -- The shorebird numbers at Blackwater NWR were impressive.  Most
of the birds were located in pool 5b.  Over 500 Dunlin along with a pair of
Black-bellied Plovers, Semipalmated Plovers, Least Sandpipers, Semipalmated
Sandpipers, and five Pectorals Sandpipers were observed.
Flooded fields along Bestpitch Rd held 12 Black-bellied Plovers, 78
Semipalmated Plovers, Semipalmated and Least Sandpipers, Lesser and Greater
Yellowlegs, and a single Spotted Sandpiper.
The Bespitch marsh flats held another 200 Dunlin.

American Wigeon -- Two were feeding in pool 5b

Northern Harriers -- two flying at Bestpitch marshes.

Red-headed Woodpecker -- one fly-by on near Shorter's Warf.

Cliff Swallows are back at the Brookveiw bridge over the Marshy Hope River.

The only non-breeding warbler seen was a single Mrytle Warbler seen near
Bestpitch Ferry.

Jim Brighton
Easton, Md