Some of the Canada Geese settled into Talbot County, and surely many
others passed right on by.  This morning one recently harvested corn field
near Unionville held over 3000 foraging geese.  In our own group of geese
resting on Leeds Creek the numbers went up to 110 yesterday, compared with
only a dozen or so on prior days.

	Also here in Talbot County recently - here at my place on Leeds
Creek - Chipping Sparrow (8), Myrtle Warbler (5), Magnolia Warbler,
Black-and-White Warbler, Golden-crowned Kinglet, Ruby-crowned Kinglet,
Eastern Phoebe, Least Flycatcher (yard bird #181 for this property),
Pileated Woodpecker, Brown Thrasher, Catbird, a small flock of House Finches
(12+), scads of Blue Jays, and several Robins.

	Wednesday morning along Forest Landing Road in Talbot County I
encountered one of the endlessly long flocks of Common Grackles (first such
flock seen by me this year).  Though this was a fairly narrow band of them,
perhaps 20 birds in cross section, the length of this twisting spiral as it
came out of the woods was so long that I did not see the front of the flock
nor the end of the flock as I drove directly past (underneath) the swarm.

	At Pickering Creek on Wednesday afternoon the farthest west of the
new ponds held a female Hooded Merganser and a young Ruddy Duck.  A Northern
Harrier was working the fields.  Other birds seen included young Blue
Grosbeak, young Indigo Bunting, Pine Warbler, Myrtle Warbler, Common
Yellowthroat Eastern Phoebe, Wood Pewee, Song Sparrow and a chattering House
Wren.  I looked hard for other sparrows, but with no success.

Les Roslund
Talbot County

-----Original Message-----
From: Maryland Birds & Birding [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
Behalf Of diane Ford
Sent: Thursday, October 05, 2006 3:19 PM
To: 
Subject: [MDOSPREY] Canada Geese flyovers


Hi all-
   
    Throughout this morning/afternoon 9am to 3pm, four large flocks of
Canada Geese flew over, and were very high up in the air. The geese were
heading East/southeast,
  and trailing one flock was a lone bird, possibly a Heron.
   
   
  D.Ford/Bethesda. Md.

 		
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