Hey everyone,

This evening I spent an hour walking around Pickering Creek.  Ebird
list is attached.


Pickering Creek Audubon Center, Talbot, US-MD
Aug 4, 2011 6:30 PM - 7:15 PM
Protocol: Traveling
0.5 mile(s)
Comments:     Met Jim Moran (sp?) and we scoped many of the shorebirds together.
21 species

Wood Duck  2
Mallard  13
Greater Yellowlegs  2
Lesser Yellowlegs 8
Semipalmated Sandpiper  76
Western Sandpiper  4
Least Sandpiper  29
Pectoral Sandpiper  1
Stilt Sandpiper  30     Down from the 34 that were present on Sunday.
Easily viewed from the observation deck on the western pond.
Barred Owl  1
Downy Woodpecker  1
Hairy Woodpecker  1
Pileated Woodpecker  1
American Crow  4
Barn Swallow  16
Gray Catbird  2
Northern Mockingbird  4
Field Sparrow  1     vocalizing
Northern Cardinal  2
Blue Grosbeak  1     male, singing.
Indigo Bunting  5
Eastern Meadowlark  1

I have been regularly trying for Upland Sandpipers at the Easton
Airport, but I haven't lucked into any.  There are Eastern Meadowlarks
and Grasshopper Sparrows present.
The Common Moorhens on the eastern Llandaff Rd pond have been very
cooperative for the past couple weeks.

Jim Brighton
Easton, MD


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