Thanks for the report, Dave--I like that subject line. In addition to the birds you mention, I'm aware of several more locations for Black Tern on the Eastern Shore yesterday (28 Aug 2011). In fact, Black Terns were seen in every e shore county except Somerset yesterday; not sure if anyone even birded Somerset, but I'll bet there were Black Terns there somewhere.
I saw 2 Black Terns at the Rt 309 pond closest to Rt 213 yesterday in Queen Anne's, and Fred Shaffer also posted about QA birds. Later Dan Small and Maren Gimpel saw 4 Black Terns at this pond, and John Hubbell also stopped by and saw the terns. Later, in Worcester, Mark Hoffman spotted a Black Tern flying by Skimmer Island that my wife Carol and I were also able to get on with Mark's help. As Jim Brighton and I already posted, they were in Talbot too.
John Hubbell had a Black Tern at Great Oak Pond in Kent, and he also found the species in Cecil, although I don't recall where. As we've seen here on MDOsprey, Black Terns were also well represented on the w shore yesterday. I guess I'd have preferred White-tailed Tropicbirds, but still pretty interesting!
Have fun,
Ron Gutberlet
Salisbury, MD
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I birded a few areas in windy Caroline, Dorchester and Wicomico County this morning. There were 6 black terns flying close to Route 331 at Tanyard Marsh, along with a few Forster’s Terns. Nothing notable at Choptank but had another 6 black terns at Hurlock WWTP, along with 100’s of swallows (mostly tree but joined by good numbers of bank and barn swallows). Also had one white-rumped sandpiper and lots of semi-palms and least. I checked out Ron Guthberlet’s post of Black terns along Log Cabin Road Turf farm and found 2 very cooperative BLTE, one sitting in the grass in plain view next to the road http://www.flickr.com/photos/22207425@N05/6090856685/in/photostream
The flooded field near Wright’s Market had a large group of over 30 pectoral sandpipers with 6 lesser yellowlegs and a few distant peeps.
No luck finding any rarities at Black Walnut Point in the afternoon but the winds had died down a little.
Dave Palmer
Easton, MD
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