Bill Ellis and I checked some areas in northern Carroll County and into Pennsylvania looking for Black-capped Chickadees but we found none. We started at Hashawha Environmental Center. Birds here were:

Carolina Chickadee  6
Red-breasted Nuthatch  1
Brown Creeper  2
Winter Wren  1
Golden-crowned Kinglet  3
Hermit Thrush  1
Field Sparrow  10
Song Sparrow  15
Swamp Sparrow  5
White-throated Sparrow  35

Hanover Watershed, MD portion:

Carolina Chickadee  3
GC Kinglet  2

Sheppard-Myers Reservoir PA:

Canada Goose  500
Chinese Goose  2
Carolina Chickadee  1 heard

Long Arm Reservoir PA:

Ruddy Duck  13
Pied-billed Grebe  1
Great Blue Heron  1
Ring-billed Gull  4

   We also visited some grassland areas in NW Carroll Co. looking for Horned Lark flocks but found none. We did see a few Pipits on John Shirk Road.

   The most interesting bird of the day was a completely leucistic Turkey Vulture seen soaring with a normal bird over the state line from Geeting Road. Yeh, we made sure it wasn't a Snowy Owl.
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Bob Ringler
Eldersburg MD