Yesterday I spent an enjoyable morning on Assateague with Amanda Spears, Kevin Graff, and Stan Arnold. Thanks again, Stan, for the transportation. We started at dawn at Bayside where there were few migrants before traveling the length of the beach south to the state line and back. Highlights for me were the immature Gannet sitting on the ocean not far offshore, flocks of Whimbrels which I rarely get to see, a few Sandwich Terns, an immature Peregrine unsuccessfully chasing the terns, distant Wilson's Storm-Petrels over the ocean, Lesser Black-backs in a multitude of plumages, the hundreds of other shorebirds that line many sections of the beach, and a chat with Nat Donkin who photographed the Brown Booby on the beach last week. Later at Skimmer Island in Ocean City we saw the two Marbled Godwits and two more Sandwich Terns. 

   After we separated I went north to look for the Roseate Spoonbill near the state line in Delaware. I didn't have to get out of the car as it was grazing on the lawn of the private home on Madison Avenue, the last house behind the Catch 54 Restaurant in Fenwick. I also stopped at Blackwater NWR where there was little to report though the White Pelican that has been there since winter continues in the Little Blackwater River at Seward. 

Bob Ringler 
Eldersburg MD