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Re: Swan Creek - Buff-breasted Sandpiper

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"CURSON, David"

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CURSON, David

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Tue, 29 Sep 2009 22:41:47 -0400

This afternoon I went to check out the Buff-breasted Sandpiper at Swan Creek and it was still there at 4:15pm. It was with the Killdeers in the same place where Joe Hanfman reported it this morning.

A nice bird and well worth seeing. Apart from a very heat-hazy view of one at Hart-Miller a few years ago this was the first decent Buffie I've seen in 27 years.

Dave

David Curson, PhD
Director of Bird Conservation,
Audubon Maryland-DC.
Tel: (410) 558 2473.
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-----Original Message-----
From: Maryland Birds & Birding [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Joe Hanfman
Sent: Tuesday, September 29, 2009 10:58 AM
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Subject: [MDOSPREY] Swan Creek - Buff-breasted Sandpiper

The Buff-breasted and White-rumped Sandpipers were still at Swan Creek this morning from 8:00 till I left at 9:10 a.m. Thanks to Stan Arnold for finding these birds.

The Buff-breasted was in the South Cell with killdeer as described by Bill Hubick. There is a ditch the shape of a large "T" in the South Cell. The Buff-breasted was on the right side of the "T" and close to the road. I saw an unusual feeding pattern as it stretched its neck up to feed in a small bush that was about twice as tall as it. It then continued to feed on the ground.

The White-rumped was in the North Cell with a flock of 14 Least Sandpipers and easily picked out of the flock.

5 Blue-winged Teal were also present.

A special note for one of the workers at Swan Creek were 2 Wood Ducks. His son as part of a Eagle Scout project put up Wood Duck boxes and he hadn't seen Wood Ducks. They are there. If you build it, they will come.

My complete list is below.






Joe Hanfman

Columbia, MD


Location:     Swan Creek Dredged Material Facility
Observation date:     9/29/09
Number of species:     34

Canada Goose     18
Mute Swan     2
Wood Duck     2
Mallard     6
Blue-winged Teal     5
Double-crested Cormorant     1
Great Blue Heron     10
Great Egret     2
Snowy Egret     3
Little Blue Heron     8
Osprey     1
Bald Eagle     2
Sharp-shinned Hawk     1     Immature chased a Little Blue Heron which ignored the hawk. Later the Sharp-shinned chased a Belted Kingfisher. The kingfisher then went after the hawk.
Broad-winged Hawk     1
American Kestrel     1
Semipalmated Plover     1
Killdeer     8
Lesser Yellowlegs     1
Least Sandpiper     14
White-rumped Sandpiper     1
Buff-breasted Sandpiper     1
Laughing Gull     1
Great Black-backed Gull     24
Caspian Tern     1
Chimney Swift     20
Belted Kingfisher     1
Red-bellied Woodpecker     1
Northern Flicker (Yellow-shafted)     1
American Crow     4
Carolina Wren     2
Gray Catbird     1
Common Yellowthroat     3
Song Sparrow     2
Northern Cardinal     1
blackbird sp.     12
American Goldfinch     1

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