Nor was the Scissor-tail present from 1130 to 1230, while I was there.
- Fred Fallon
Huntingtown
Kurt R. Schwarz wrote:
> I was present at the Scissor-tailed Flycatcher spot roughly 7:30-08:40,
> and could not locate it. No one else was present at the time. I then
> went to Chesapeake Farms to look for the Reeve. No luck. I returned to
> Eastern Neck to find roughly a dozen others, from many counties, and
> none had found it. Virtually all left by the time I gave up, 11:30 or
> so. Another stop at Chesapeake Farms failed to yield the Reeve again.
>
> Nice birds I did see at Eastern Neck:
>
> Bank Swallows - 2 (perched on the wire as I crossed the causeway about
> 7:15)
> Kentucky Warbler - 1 (singing in the patch of wood on the right just
> beyond Tubby Cove about 8:45)
> Yellow-thoated Warbler - 1 (singing from the trees on the right as you
> exit just after Tubby Cove, first heard by Bob Ringler).
>
> The cast at Cheaspeake changed.
>
> On the first stop I saw
> Semi-Palmated Plover
> Least Sandpiper
> Semi-palmated Sandpiper
> White-rumped Sandpiper
> Short-billed Dowitcher
> Greater Yellowlegs.
>
> WHen I dropped in again, I added:
>
> Black-bellied Plovers
> Ruddy Turnstones
>
> Kurt Schwarz
> HowCo
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