I spent most of the day in Kent County today and met many other birders from multiple states while there. To the best of my knowledge neither the Ruff nor the Scissor-tailed Flycatcher were reported by anyone. I spent a couple hours at Chesapeake Farms in mid morning and a couple in the afternoon. Numbers of shorebirds were about half those previously reported. Sometime in the afternoon a flock of Black-bellied Plovers and Turnstones appeared. They also disappeared while I was there looking at other species. The Ruff may still be around. 



Chesapeake Farms: 

Tundra/Trumpeter Swan  1, I ignored it while looking at shorebirds so it took off before I could study it 

Green-winged Teal  2 

Black-bellied Plover  25 

Semi Plover  20 

Killdeer  1, heard only 

Greater Yellowlegs  4 

Lesser Yellowlegs  1 

Ruddy Turnstone  3 

Semi Sand  500 

Least Sand  10 

White-rumped Sand  2 

Dunlin  100 

Short-billed Dowitcher  22 



Eastern Neck NWR: the only bird of note was a Brown-headed Nuthatch I heard at Bogle's Wharf 



Chestertown WWTP:  1 female Ruddy Duck 

Bob Ringler 
Eldersburg MD