Date: Sun, 8 Sep 2002 19:30:09 +0000 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: jim brighton Subject: Dorchester County Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed I spent a few hours this morning birding Eliot's Island and Blackwater NWR. Highlights of the Eliot's Island area included 3 moorhen, 15 Dowitchers, 23 lesser yellowlegs, 9 greater yellowlegs, 3 pectorals, 1 willet, lots of least and semipalmated sandpipers, 7 seaside sparrows(amazingly I could not find one sharp-tail sparrow), many marsh wrens, and the Sedge wren that Chris Starling and I saw last Sunday was still in the same small stand of grass directly across from the first house on the right once you hit the marsh. This bird was very cooperative, staying out in the open for up to 45 seconds at a time repeatedly. By far the best look at a sedge wren I've ever had. Highlights at Blackwater were Scarlet Tanager, 15! Ovenbirds, Parula, worm-eating, black-and-white, pine, yellowthroat, and yellow-rumped warblers, red-eyed and white-eyed vireos, and 5 veery's. _________________________________________________________________ Join the world?s largest e-mail service with MSN Hotmail. http://www.hotmail.com ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================