I went looking for field birds in Queen Anne's and Talbot counties yesterday.  I started at Centreville where Snow Buntings had been reported.  It took about a half hour before I found them.  They flew in and landed in the field on the west side of Rolling Bridge Road about 100 yards south of Route 304, Ruthsburg Road.  They were mixed in with Horned Larks but I counted at least 12 Snow Buntings.  There were about 30 Horned Larks in the area including some in the streets of the nearby development.
   Working my way south I found smaller flocks of larks at five more locations along Rolling Bridge Road.  With snow covering the fields many birds were feeding in the road.  Farther south there was a flock of about 40 larks on Route 309 just north of Queen Anne.  Checking the nearby site where a longspur had been reported last week in Talbot Co. I found that it was actually in Queen Anne's Co. and I saw no birds there.
   Working into Talbot Co. there were flocks of Horned Larks on Lewistown Road, Coveys Landing Road, Colby Road, Chapel Road, and Schwaninger Road but there were no other species with them.
   Along Route 50 I checked large flocks of Canada Geese at Schwaninger Road and Manadier Road.  Both flocks numbered in the thousands but I saw no other species.  Near Pickering Creek Audubon Center on Presquile Road there was a goose flock numbering in the hundreds that included a group of three Cackling Geese.
   I also saw single Brown Thrashers at Coveys Landing and on Sharp Road near Longwoods.  Other birds of note:  about 75 Tundra Swans on Coveys Landing Road, 6 Meadowlarks on Lewistown Road, and 4 Savannah Sparrows at Pickering Creek AC.

Bob Ringler
Eldersburg MD