[MDOsprey] Eastern Shore Birds

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Birding on the Eastern Shore today (9-3-99) with Gail Frantz and 
Elliot Kirschbaum visiting several sites.

Central Sod Farms, Queen Anne's County:
	Buff-breasted Sandpiper  1
	Golden Plover  10 (probably all molting adults)
	Killdeer  70
	All birds were in the plowed field on the NE side of John Brown 
Road between the woods and the grassy turf, but other people there said 
they had seen them in other fields earlier in the day.

Ridgely sewage ponds:
	Canada Goose  7
	Mallard  20
	Blue-winged Teal 7
	Green-winged Teal  10
	Semi Plover 1
	Killdeer  60
	Greater Yellowlegs  3
	Lesser Yellowlegs  140
	Spotted Sandpiper  2
	Semi Sand  20
	Least Sand  30
	Pectoral Sand  15
	Stilt Sand  8
	Snipe  1
	Laughing Gull 2

Hurlock sewage ponds:
	Pied-billed Grebe  1
	DC Cormorant  2
	Great Blue Heron  2
	Snow Goose  1
	Canada Goose  29
	Tundra Swan  1
	Mallard  10
	Ruddy Duck  1 female
	Killdeer  4
	Lesser Yellowlegs  8
	Spotted Sandpiper  2
	Semi Sand  25
	Least Sand  40
	Pectoral Sand  1
	Laughing Gull  85
	Forster's Tern  13

Bivalve, Wicomico County:
	DC Cormorant  6
	Caspian Tern  1 juvenile
	Royal Tern  500
	Small terns  0

Waterview, Wicomico County:
	Brown Pelican - at least 5 on pound nets in mouth of Nanticoke R
	Cattle Egret  8 in horse pasture
	Clapper Rail - heard 3
	Gnatcatcher  1

Bob Ringler

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