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Re: Scissor-tailed Flycatcher and Reeve: NO

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Fred Fallon

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Fred Fallon

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Thu, 28 May 2009 22:01:26 -0400

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
> goawaybird at verizon dot net