Hans,
   Could you clarify the dates of your observations last weekend, please?  In the Subject you have January 8-9 but in the text you have the 7th and 8th.  Are the dates in the text correct?

Bob Ringler
Eldersburg MD

 
---- Hans Holbrook <> wrote: 
> Jim Brighton and I birded together this weekend in Charles and St. Mary's 
> Counties.  Highlights in Charles on the 7th were:  1 Red-headed Woodpecker 
> (Mattawoman), 1 Forster's Tern (Cobb Island), 1 Great Cormorant (Cobb 
> Island), and 17 species of waterfowl.
> 
> Highlights in Saint Mary's on the 8th were mostly around Point Lookout State 
> Park: 1 Great Cormorant, 1 Barred Owl, 20 species of waterfowl including 2 
> Richardson's Geese, 2 Pine Warblers, and 1 COMMON REDPOLL.  The Redpoll was 
> feeding in a corn field in a loose foraging flock of bluebirds, golfinches, 
> House Finches, and Myrtle Warblers.  I don't have a map handy, but I believe 
> the road was called Cornfield Harbor Rd., or it was the road leading in that 
> dirrection, it was on State Park land.
> 
> Also stopped at Sandgates on the 8th and easily located the Kelp Gull.
> 
> On the 4th Jim and I heard a Woodcock calling along Annapolis Rock Road in 
> Howard County.
> 
> Good Birding,
> 
> Hans
> 
> Hans Holbrook
> 
> Columbia, MD
> 
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