On Aug  31 at my work at the Wye Research Center near Queenston Maryland there was an Eastern Kingbird presant . Also on  Aug 31 , 2010 at about dusk  I was in Centreville  Maryland  and had  a large group of Chimney Swifts flying and swirling around I roughly estimated 100 birds. As dark neared they  dove into a chimney of a house  next  to the firehouse   for the night .  During this the  siren went off for a call briefly scattering the flock before they resumed entering  the  eveing roost  . I made a much closer estimate of the number of swifts as they entered the chimney  my second total 139 very cool to watch .
 
      All Week  on my way home from work I made stops at  Central Sod Farm Near Queenstown to try and see the reported  Buff Breasted  Sandpiper  with   no luck at all of  locating  it  . On Thursday Sept 2  I made a count of the Shorebirds there with the most of them being Killdeer 
 
Killdeer   174
Semi Palmated Plover    4
Least Sandpiper  15
 
    Non Shorebirds 
Eastern Bluebirds       6
Horned Lark      12
Mourning Dove    4
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
CENTREVILLE  MARYLAND  Aug 31 ,2010  Dusk 
 
139   Chimney Swift      going to roost in a chimney next to the firehouse   Very cool to watch
  
 
Central Sod Farm Queenstown Maryland Sept 2, 2010
 
Killdeer   174
Semi Palmated Plover    4
Least Sandpiper 15
Eastern Bluebirds      6
Horned Lark   12
American Crow    8
 
Happy Weekend Birding 
Danny Poet 
Queenstown , Maryland 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Happy Weekend Birding
Danny Poet 
Queenstown, Maryland