>>>More recently, oysters, it seems, have been pretty much driven out.<<< _________________ Here are the animals that the U. S. Fish & Wildlife Service appears to currently list as threatened or endangered in some or all of Delaware: Piping plover Eastern puma (cougar) Green sea turtle Hawksbill sea turtle Kemp's ridley sea turtle Leatherback sea turtle Loggerhead sea turtle Delmarva Paninsula fox squirrel Shortnose sturgeon Northern bog (Muhlenberg) turtle Finback whale Humpback whale Right whale American burying beetle Eskimo curlew Dwarf wedgemussel Gray wolf ecos.fws.gov/tess_public/StateListingAndOccurrence.do?state=DE Alas, the erster doesn't appear to have been listed yet (not added to the website listing for Delaware, anyway). But do we have any Lower Shore tracts named Shortnose Sturgeon, Dwarf Wedgemussel, or Burying Beetle? :-) Dave K