Yesterday Bryan Monk and I spent a few hours birding Harford County. We had a fairly slow day considering pure numbers, but a few goodies popped up and we ended up with a nice list for December 1. Highlights. Canada Goose (small race) 1 with flock on Jarrettsville Road, 200 yards into Baltimore County Virginia Rail 2 (Bosley Conservancy) American Woodcock 5 (Bosley Conservancy) Greater Yellowlegs 1 (Bosley Conservancy) Great Horned Owl 1 (Bosley Conservancy) Pine Warbler 1 (near Boy Scout Camp) Yellow-headed Blackbird 1 (imm male in flock of 10,000+ blackbirds just east of Bradenbaugh Road. Seen sitting and flying by both of us. In addition, Eastern Bluebirds and White-breasted Nuthatches seemed to be in espewcially high numbers. We ended up with more than a dozen nuthatches, ioncluding 6 at one site. Rick "Everywhere I go I'm asked if the university stifles writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them. There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher." Flannery O'Connor Rick Blom rblom@blazie.com 4318 Cowan Place Belcamp, Maryland 21017 (410)575-6086