Hi Everybody,

A somewhat belated report on the Lower Kent County CBC, held Sunday, 18 December:

Our final tally was 122 species; totals since 2000 have ranged from 111 to 124. Danny Poet has already mentioned the best bird of the count - the Snowy Owl he found on a farm on the Queen Anne's side of the Chester River. Other highlights included a Black-crowned Night-Heron on Swan Point, 16 Cackling Geese among 56,000+ Canadas, 8 Brant (7 on the Bay off Swan Point and one with a Canada flock at a farm pond on Broad Neck), 3 Golden Eagles (immatures off Swan Point and at Chesapeake Farms and a subadult on Quaker Neck), a Merlin, lingering Greater Yellowlegs, Dunlin, and Forster's Tern, three Barn Owls, a Short-eared Owl, 2 Black-capped Chickadees, 3 Marsh Wrens, and a Lincoln's Sparrow seen near the end of the Duck Inn Trail on Eastern Neck Island. 

All-in-all it was a fine day to be out and about enjoying birds

Nancy Martin

23460 Clarissa Road
Chestertown, MD 21620
phone: 410-778-9568
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"A person who is looking for something doesn't travel very fast" - E. B. White (in "Stuart Little")

"Are there *ever* enough birds?" - Connie Hagar as quoted by Edwin Way Teale in "Wandering through Winter"