Damned auto-word program on my phone...
We were at Hurlock not Hemlock Sewage plant. We birded with Matt HAFNER not Hammer, but I have a feeling the later will stick for life, who saw the Cormorant from 3rd Street. And we started at the VA line on the OSV zone.
Love the phone but hate the program sometimes.
Ed Boyd
Who cares where I'm from
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Subject: [MDOSPREY] Eastern Shore Birding - Baird's and White-rumped, Whimbrel, American Avocet and Gull-billed Terns
Date: Mon, Aug 8, 2011 21:00
Yesterday afternoon I drove to the eastern shore with Jim Stasz. We stopped at the Hemlock sewage plant on the way down where we located several hundred shorebirds, mostly at the north end of the northwest impoundment. The best birds here were an adult Baird's and 2 White-rumped Sandpipers. These were relocated today by Matt Hammer after he headed west from birding with us.
Today, Jim Stasz and I birded Worcester County. We met up with Matt Hafner and birded Bayside on Assategue. Matt had a pretty good warbler movement before we arrived, but will still managed to see Blue-winged, Yellow, Prairie, Black-and-white and American Redstarts. The best bird was an early migrant Dickcissel. We then beat the wetlands unsuccessfully for White Ibis.
We next headed to the O.C. Causeway to scan Skimmer Island. Matt first located the earlier reported Great Cormorant from 3Ed St., and we quickly located it from the causeway. Nothing else of major note was seen except for 10 Sandwich Terns.
We next went to Castaways where we were able to locate 7 Black Skimmers on the island and 9 Piping Plovers on a sand bar in the bay. We made a quick scan of West O.C. Pond and Matt left us at this point.
We next headed to the OSV zone. We drove to the Vs line and headed north. On the drive we located 209 Lesser Black-backed Gulls, 37 Whimbrel and 3 Sandwich Terns. About halfway up the beach we found an adult Gull-billed Tern that allowed some decent photos to be taken. A couple of miles further we ran into a juvenile tern that turned out to be another Gull-billed. Jim and I had never seen this plumage before and we got some more good photos.
We left the island and drove south to Truitt's Landing where, despite the difficult lighting, we located 9 American Avocets. We failed to turn up anything remarkable at or least stop, Vaughn north.
Ed Boyd
Chestnut Hill Cove, MD
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