Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2004 17:08:29 -0500 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: danny poet Subject: Queen Annes Co Snow Birds Larks and longspurs Comments: cc: lroslund@bluecrab.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed Hi all yesterday afternoon I deciced to drive some of the back roads of central Queen Annes co looking for field birds pushed to the road sides by the snow. At first all i saw were a few Horned Larks on several roads in addition to lots of White Throated Sparrows , Juncos , several Flickers and 1 Eastern Towhee. Untill I drove down Little Eagle Road, Sotheast of Centreville and a little north of Starr , DeLorme Md atlas map book page 50 B 2 lower coner . I came around a Bend And spooked about 10 Horned Larks From the Roadside which landed back in the snow coverd field with some grass and weeds sticking out. I Pulled over as far off the road as possible and noticed a lot more Larks feeding about 100 + I Set My spotting scope on the window mount and looked over the active flock. every few mintutes up they would fly and land again . I would have to creep the truck up to get near and look again . Soon I hit the magic bird 1 Lapland Longspur the group they moved again , I regrouped and soon Had 2 Lapland Longspurs together . Again they were off this time way back in another nearby field . I left happy and went home . A county bird for 2004 I could not have had a better Birthday gift. Happy Birding Danny poet Queenstown Md birder2312hotmail.com _________________________________________________________________ There are now three new levels of MSN Hotmail Extra Storage! Learn more. http://join.msn.com/?pgmarket=en-us&page=hotmail/es2&ST=1 ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================