Joe and all,

I'm glad folks are getting the BB Sandpiper this time.  This one was actually found by Bill Hubick.  The one I found last week was not refound the next day, but this one is acting just like it by hanging out with the Killdeers in the south cell.

Thanks for reporting, Joe.

Stan ARnold
Ferndale




-----Original Message-----
>From: Joe Hanfman <>
>Sent: Sep 29, 2009 10:58 AM
>To: 
>Subject: [MDOSPREY] Swan Creek - Buff-breasted Sandpiper
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>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. 
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>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. 
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>The White-rumped was in the North Cell with a flock of 14 Least Sandpipers and easily picked out of the flock. 
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>5 Blue-winged Teal were also present. 
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>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. 
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>My complete list is below. 
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>Joe Hanfman 
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>Columbia, MD 
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>Location:     Swan Creek Dredged Material Facility 
>Observation date:     9/29/09 
>Number of species:     34 
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>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 
>
>This report was generated automatically by eBird v2(http://ebird.org)