[MDOsprey] Great Day in Harford
rick (rblom@blazie.com)
Sun, 29 Aug 1999 07:10:27 -0500
Yesterday afternoon (Saturday), Spike Updegrove called and said he
had found a Baird's Sandpiper at Aldino Sod Farm while looking at the
Lesser Golden-Plover. Bryan Blazie and I joined him and found the plover
(different than the one we had seen in the morning) and 2 Baird's. The
birds were in the newly plowed field along Carsin's Run Road and there were
at least 110 Killdeer present.
Bryan and I then went to Havre de Grace, where we were joined by
Richard Hagenston. The flats were full of birds. Highlights:
GREAT CORMORANT 1
Semipalmated Plover 7
Lesser Yellowlegs 11
Spotted Sandpiper 1
Least Sandpiper 6
Semipalmated Sandpiper 3
peep sp. 10
Caspian Tern 20
Forster's Tern 600
COMMON TERN 4
BLACK TERN 14
With the addition of Baird's Sandpiper and Great Cormorant my year
list in Harford is now 227. The Great Cormorant, a first summer bird mostly
molted into second winter (I think) was with Double-cresteds on the sticks
in the water behaind the flat. The count of Black Terns is the highest I
have ever seen in the county, and they were feeding over the grass mats and
sitting on the flat.
Rick
"The whole of nature is a conjugation of the verb to eat, in the active and
passive." -- Dean William R. Inge
Rick Blom
rblom@blazie.com
4318 Cowan Place
Belcamp, Maryland 21017
(410)575-6086