Marcy and all, 



Jim Green was with me at Oxbow Lake this morning. We saw Jay Shephard and his wife but missed the shorebirds. Jay said they were a flyover and we wern't looking up at the right time. 





Joe Hanfman 

Columbia, MD 

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Subject: [MDOSPREY] Oxbow Lake - 45-50 Short-billed Dowitchers 

Jay Sheppard reports these birds at the Little Patuxent Oxbow Lake Nature Preserve earlier today: 

the best .... 
45-50 Short-billed Dowitchers 

also... 
5 Little Blues 
6 Great Egrets 
4 Little Green Heron 
55 Great Blues (conservative estimate!) 
50 Wood Duck 
15 Canada Goose 
12 Purple Martin 
25 Tree Swallow 
1 Eastern Pheobe 
1 Yellow-throated Vireo 
1 Scarlet Tanager 
3 Eastern Bluebird 
50 Red-winged Blackbird 
  
and another dozen "other" shorebirds -suspect some were Stilt Sandpipers...but no way to be sure. 

Jay mentioned that Joe Hanfman and another individual were also birding so maybe their lists will add more species. 

Marcy Stutzman 
Russett, MD