Hi all,


  Haven't been home since Monday evening after 30+ hrs round trip including rest stops to see the Greater Sand-Plover in Jacksonville, FL. Renting car, left Mon 8pm, got there 1030am Tues morning, stay less than an hour, left for home made several rest stops and checking on emails on my sister's old laptop. Got home around 2am, sleep for a bit and then head out door at 730am to Kent Co for double rarity.  Too much for me.


05/27/09 - 915am-1115am
Eastern Neck NWR "Ingleside Rec Area" Eastern Neck Rd., Rock Hall, Kent Co., MD

WEATHER: Overcast/MC, 59-60 degrees, calm- NNE 4 mph
OBSERVERS: Gwen Brewer, J.B. Churchill, Kevin Graff

Mute Swan - 10 (J.B., somewhere in refuge)
Wild Turkey - 3
Double-crested Cormorant - 1
Great Blue Heron - 1
Green Heron - 1 (Gwen)
Turkey Vulture - 2
Osprey - 1
Bald Eagle - 2
Ring-billed Gull - 2
Mourning Dove - 2
Chimney Swift - 1
Pileated Woodpecker - 1 (J.B.)
Eastern Wood-Pewee - 1
Great Crested Flycatcher - 1
SCISSOR-TAILED FLYCATCHER - 1
Eastern Kingbird - 3
Blue Jay - 1
American Crow - 1
Tree Swallow - 1
Barn Swallow - 6
Carolina Chickadee - 1
House Wren - 1
Eastern Bluebird - 2
American Robin - 4
Gray Catbird - 1
Northern Mockingbird - 2
Brown Thrasher - 1
European Starling - 2
Cedar Waxwing - 59 (3 flocks)
Yellow Warbler - 1
Blackpoll Warbler - 1
Chipping Sparrow - 2
Swamp Sparrow - 1 (rocky shoreline)
Northern Cardinal - 6
Blue Grosbeak - 2
Indigo Bunting - 2
Red-winged Blackbird - 1
Common Grackle - 6
Brown-headed Cowbird - 1
Orchard Oriole - 1
American Goldfinch - 2
SPECIES: 41
INDIVIDUALS: 141

05/27/09 - 1135am-1245pm
Chesapeake Farms "Waterfowl Rest Area" Remington Dr., Rock Hall, Kent Co., MD

WEATHER: PC, 62-64 degrees, NE 4 mph- calm
OBSERVERS: J.B. Churchill, Kevin Graff

Wood Duck - 1 (flyby)
Mallard - 4
Great Blue Heron - 2
Black Vulture - 1
Turkey Vulture - 6
Black-bellied Plover - 5
Semipalmated Plover - 122
Killdeer - 1
Greater Yellowlegs - 5
Lesser Yellowlegs - 1
Spotted Sandpiper - 1
Semipalmated Sandpiper - 1126
Least Sandpiper - 110
White-rumped Sandpiper - 2
Dunlin - 105
Ruff - 1 (Reeve)
Short-billed Dowitcher - 15 (11 atlantic, 4 prairie)
Mourning Dove - 2
American Crow - 1
Horned Lark - 1 (nearby field, also heard by J.B.)
Purple Martin - 12
Tree Swallow - 8
Barn Swallow - 10
Eastern Bluebird - 1 (nearby road)
American Robin - 4
Northern Mockingbird - 2
European Starling - 13
Northern Cardinal - 3
Indigo Bunting - 1
Bobolink - 1
Red-winged Blackbird - 8
Common Grackle - 11
Orchard Oriole - 1
American Goldfinch - 2
House Sparrow - 2
SPECIES: 35
TOTAL BIRDS: 1591


   Kevin Graff
   West Ocean City, MD