I joined Mikey Lutmerding and Jim Brighton for a great day of birding in 
Worcester, Wicomico and Dorchester counties today. Highlights were a Vesper 
Sarrow at Assateague - Bayside, a late Blue Grosbeak outside of Vienna, 
impressive number of ducks at Hurlock WWTP including a Surf Scoter, and multiple 
Pine Siskins heard and seen during the day in Worcester and Wicomico counties. 
Other birds of interested included below.

Assateague- Bayside
Pine Siskin -3
Purple Finch - 2
American Redstart -1
Blackpoll Warbler - 4
Vesper Sparrow -1
Wilson's Snipe -1
Eastern Meadowlarks - 7, circled a few times and then made the jump to the main 
land.

Castaway's Camp Ground
American Oystercatcher - 22
Marbled Godwit - 1
Black-bellied Plover - 50
Bonaparte's Gull - 1
Willet - 26
Great Cormorant - 1

Ocean City Inlet
Purple Sandpiper -1
Northern Gannet -15
Great Cormorant -1

Salisbury Landfill
Cackling Goose -1
Pine Siskin - 1
Lesser Black-backed Gull -1

Chapel of Ease Rd- north of Vienna (Dorchester Co.)
Blue Grosbeak -1

Hurlock WTTP
Hooded Merganser- 1
American Coot - 11
Ruddy Duck- 1616 (carefully counted), an amazing sight.
Blue-winged Teal -1
Green-winged Teal -22
Northern shoveler- 112
Redhead -2
Ring-necked Duck - 9
Surf Scoter- 1
Pectoral Sandpiper -7
Dunlin -2
Least Sandpiper -1

Dan Small
Chestertown, MD