Stopped by Irish Grove Sanctuary (Somerset County) this evening to light 
the pilot lights in the heaters.  It was beautiful evening - calm, clear 
and cold.  After lighting the pilots, I birded around the yard and then 
down Rumbly Point Road, arriving at the end of the road around dusk.  Birds 
seen include:
19 D-C Cormorants
5 G.B. Herons
7 Great Egrets
1 Snowy Egret
2 Little Blue Herons (imm)
2 Turkey Vultures
23 Canada Geese
9 Am. Black Duck
1 Northern Harrier
5 Large rail sp (most likely Clapper)
4 Greater Yellowlegs
3 Lesser Yellowlegs
7 Least Sandpipers
2 Ring-billed Gulls
3 Herring Gulls
7 Great Black-back Gulls
2 G. Horned Owls
2 Belted Kingfishers
1 Red-Bellied Woodpecker
1 Downy Woodpecker
3 Northern Flickers
2 Eastern Phoebes (a scarce bird at this location)
2 Am. Crows
43 Tree Swallow
3 C. Chickadee
2 Br-headed Nuthatch
4 Carolina Wrens
2 Marsh Wrens
3 G-c Kinglets
1 R-c Kinglet
3 Hermit Thrushes
3 Am. Robins
1 Gray Catbird
1 No. Mockingbird
1 Brown Thrasher
26 Myrtle Warblers
3 Chipping Sparrows
5 Savannah Sparrows
5 Saltmarsh Sharp-tailed Sparrows
4 Nelson's Sharp-tailed Sparrows
1 Seaside Sparrow
8 Song Sparrows (some singing)
9 Swamp Sparrows
21 White-throated Sparrows
4 No. Cardinals
11 Red-winged Blackbirds (some singing)
4 E. Meadowlarks (some singing)

Stopped along Rumbly Point Road at a likely spot and spished, which flushed 
up a number of swamp sparrows.  Thinking there might be more to it, I gave 
a screech owl whistle and up popped a flock of sharp-tailed sparrows.  At 
one point, there were 2 saltmarsh and 1 Nelson's in my binoculars at the 
same time.  Tried to find a Leconte's in the group, but no luck. I was on 
Rumbly Point Rd the evening before and there were about 7X more yellowlegs, 
black-bellied and semipalmated plovers, and 3 dowitchers (sp? - back lit by 
the setting sun).

Good Birding
Paul Bystrak

3709 Devonshire Drive
Salisbury, MD 21804
410-572-9950
443-783-1268 (cell)